Who knows? Up all night with a crying baby? Post-partum? Just a ditz? Brand new routine dropping the baby off at day care and it slipped her mind?
Or something more sinister and nefarious?
As a single and new first time mom (considered by my doc to be an older mom) I would wake up in the middle of the night and wonder "did I put her to bed?, Is she in the playpen or her crib?" She was always right were I put her at 7:00 at night, in her crib.
I didn't go to work anymore after she was born, I started a business from home (and boy has that been a bumpy ride). I can't imagine the days that my mom and dad watched her (2x a week for a few hours at a time), not calling and saying "hi, everything ok?"
I still do it when I have a friend watch her while I go run errands or have to go to meeting or something, I always just check and make sure everything is ok. - She's 2.5 now. I simply don't know how (new) mommy's go a whole day without knowing something isn't right.
There is NO excuse for this ..You have to be a complete MORON to forget you have your kid in car with you..Beyond belief that someone can be that much of an air head.
Mudrer charges are in order.
When this happened in Iowa a few years ago, we heard that the Career Woman was having some marriage difficulty at the time.
The jury let her go.