Posted on 06/29/2006 1:07:30 PM PDT by rawhide
A 5-month-old baby died in a minivan Wednesday after the mother apparently forgot to drop the child off at day care.
The tragedy was discovered about 5:30 p.m. outside the Wonder Years 2 day care. The baby's mother stopped at the day care after work to pick up the child and was told by staff that the baby had not been dropped off. She realized then that the baby had been in her minivan all day.
"The mother had forgotten to drop off the child at day care in the morning," said Curt Kreun, owner of Wonder Years 2. "She actually came in the building to pick up the child and then realized what had happened."
The child was in a car seat in the back of the vehicle, according to Sgt. Jeff Burgess of the Grand Forks Police Department. A Wonder Years 2 staff member made the 911 call, according to Kreun.
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I know, but that's a budgeting problems (among other things) We're talking staying with your children.
However, those things you are describing drive me up the wall too!!!!
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So, you are both for and against individual responsibility...
This isn't some Christian chat room, for crying out loud. It's Free Republic.
sw
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starting to feel that way myself....
I really want to see a comparison chart of the annual number of these cases before and after laws requiring children to ride in the back seat went into effect. I don't seem to recall hearing these stories back in the good old days, when a lone child riding with a parent was always in the seat next to the parent. Sure there were occasional "don't give a sh!t" cases where some total lowlife parent knowingly left an infant or toddler in a hot car while going off to do something stupid. But responsible working parents? I don't think so. Obviously the dark-tinted window craze isn't helping either, but I think the nanny-state back-seat-only laws are a much bigger factor.
The "wonderful authorities" are insisting that parents put these little tots in the back seat where they're out-of-sight/out-of-mind, and giving parents fat fines if they have their little ones seated next to them.
Can you find a single instance in the history of this country where the same parent has had this happen twice?
Bingo! These car seats are very big and bulky and depending on the make of the car, it might be very difficult to just simply "glance" back there and actually see if a child is indeed in the car seat. (The big seat could have appeared empty because it was facing the rear window)..
Obviously, that is just what happened..because she didn't even notice the baby was in the car seat when she went back to pick her baby up...
A terrible tragedy...for all.
sw
I have 9 kids and I worked full-time while some of them were infants. I never left any of them to die in a hot car, or forgot to pick them up from the babysitter.
I get nauseous when I read stories like this. It's Bullscheiss that she "just forgot."
I agree. I am sure her guilt will last forever. I am sorry for her, the baby and her family, what an awful thing. I just don't understand those who use this sad story as a way to make themselves feel superior. I think most parents, if honest, have made a mistake that could have seriously harmed their child. I know that I did, and it is through the grace of God that the harm never occurred.
There is a difference between "infallibility" and leaving a baby to suffocate in a hot car.
I am a very absent-minded person, my kids like to make jokes about my absent-mindedness, but none of them ever suffocated in a hot car because of it.
I once left a quart of ice cream to die in the hot car.
I do know a thing or two about being a single mom... (per my post #164)
thank your lucky stars you don't
Ever hear of the saying "There but for the Grace of God go I"?
I'm sure if you think about it long enough, you'll see the connection between the two.
"If the authorities would actually do their job and stop buying these lame excuses for child murder, we'd see an astonishing number of parents suddenly find their memories and tend to their children. Instead, the wonderful authorities are aiding and abetting these sad excuses for people to get away with murder..."
Dittos!
Personal responsibility is what is missing.
People who are likely to heavily rely on such a device are already suspect for lacking it. The device would probably reduce the number of instances in which they forget in a greater number and with a greater likelihood than it is likely that the device would fail critically.
In other words, such people are more likely to forget their kid in the car than the device is likely to fail critically.
Working parents like me and my wife, you know, us taxpayers.
Which makes my point that 2 full time jobs is overkill.
*coughing* Thous shalt not judge? Which version is it that you read?
I see thou shalt not kill - but thou shalt not judge...that's a new one for me.
What a Liberal perspective. There is no morality -- only shades of gray. All decisions are OK, no matter who gets hurt. The important thing is the desire to do no harm and, of course, that the decider is HAPPY and fulfilled.
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