perhaps she had a deadbeat dad who can;t be located and she has no choice but to work and put food on the table for herself and possibly other children she might have.
Yes, it's a VERY stupid mistake, but unfortunately can happen.
I still have a scar on my forehead from when I was little and my mom strapped me in the carseat (think 1975) but the carseat wasn't seatbelted in. she drove around. carseat shifted. she opened the car door. klunk--I fell on the pavement. mom gets hysterical.
OMG. I fell out of a car also, when I was 2. This was in 1977, before car seat requirements.
Except, in my case the car was moving. Well, it came to a stop and I thought it was time to get out. So I opened the door just at the time we started moving again. The driver looked in the rearview mirror and saw me laying in the middle of the parking lot.
Oops.
I think this story is so sad. I cannot begin to think that this woman did this intentionally. think of the millions of children who get taken to day care every day. It is with the odds that a tragedy will happen occasionally. It is a numbers things. I shudder when I think of the things that could have happened to my own children-I cannot judge. I pray for this poor woman.