"The child had probably passed away a while before she got to the day care," Kreun said.
Kreun, who has been in the child care business for years, said near-tragedies happen all too often.
"I know people who have gotten to work and realized they forgot to drop off their kids and had to go back."
Kreun said it would have been impossible for passersby to see the baby in the van, which had tinted windows.
"I walked around that van about 14 times after they left, and you would not have been able to see in there," he said.
I just don't understand this - How do you buckle her in and forget she's there on the way to work?
a retard.. complete retard.
I have never understood these kind of stories. I do not have children, but just do not see how it is possible to "forget" your child in a car for hours.
Idea - proximity alert. Baby seat with sensors. If baby is in the baby seat, and no adults are in the car - baby seat will start beeping. After a few minutes, the baby seat will then page or send a text message to the parent. Failing that, the baby seat will then interface with the vehicle's alarm system and start blinking the lights and periodically honking the horn.
Or when the car is turned off, if the baby seat is occupied, it will beep immediately. Lots of possibilities for interfacing baby seat sensors and the vehicle for the purpose of alerting the adults.
you're rushing to work...half asleep...u place your baby in the car seat in the back...you're still half asleep, and the child is asleep...you're in a rush, someone calls your cell, blah blah blah...u forget to go to the day care...baby is still asleep in the back...you're still asleep but in a rush...you get to work, get preoccupied, the day goes by...you think you dropped your child off at day care that morning (because that's routine)...but you didnt...realize it when you get to the daycare, and then find your child dead in the back of the car...stupid, stupid, tradgedy...but not implausible...
"I FORGOT"don't cut it!This sounds intentional to me and the mother is playing out a plan to try and get away with something.
I just don't get it.
Serious question: how many people here could have ever forgotten you had a child in the car with you? No matter how old or where they were sitting?
I consider this to be more the fault of government mandating child car seats and that they be placed in the rear seats of the vehicle. It is very easy to forget a silent, sleeping child in the back seat of a car, especially when you are gearing up to face the stress of the coming work day.
Add to that the feminaziation of our society that would make this woman feel she needed to work anyway. Then the overtaxation that almost requires double incomes.
Yes, this individual woman carries a lot of responsibility, but in the interest of protecting children our government has set up children to become victims!
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...
This thread is a marvel of infallible spectators.
The same BS happened in North Texas a few years ago. She was charged, went to court and the jury slapped her wrist.
This happens in Phoenix every year, where the temp inside a parked car reaches over 150 degrees. Sad, scary stuff.
When I have kids someday I'm sure I'll be terrified of doing something like this.
Why didn't the kiddie kennel employees call mom to ask where the baby was that day?
There have been some clever solutions to these tragedies on this thread. They all sound like good ideas.
But, what if there are unforeseen consequences? Like, baby gets strangled by strap of Mom's purse or something? Or car alarm causes hearing damage? Or something else?
That's why these should be OPTIONS to be chosen in the marketplace, rather than imposed by the omnipotent Nanny State.