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Baby forgotten in shopping cart at Midland store
http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/121906/reg_121906070.shtml ^ | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 | AP

Posted on 12/19/2006 6:02:19 AM PST by WestTexasWend

MIDLAND, TX (AP) - A 3-month-old baby was left unattended in a shopping cart for about an hour Sunday when her parents accidentally left her behind, police said.

Shoppers noticed the abandoned baby at a Toys "R" Us store, Midland police Sgt. Alfredo Grimaldo said.

"It was a misunderstanding among family members," Grimaldo said in Monday editions of the Midland Reporter-Telegram. "One man took the kids home and left the ladies to shop. But when he took the kids, he didn't take the baby from the cart."

The family members, who were traveling in different cars, didn't realize what happened until they all got home and nobody had the baby, he said.

"We don't think it was really a child abandonment issue. It was just a misunderstanding," Grimaldo said.

Police spokeswoman Tina Jauz said Child Protective Services is looking into the case.


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To: areafiftyone

Do you have children? Thi is not mean to be any kind of jdgement, I'm just wondering.

I have 4 daughters, and i understand how this could happen. Thankfully, it never did!


21 posted on 12/19/2006 6:25:27 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (SAY NO TO RUDY!)
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To: WestTexasWend

If it would have been a puppy I bet they wouldn't have forgot it.


22 posted on 12/19/2006 6:28:34 AM PST by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname

Well at least he remembered and thank God your son was ok. I think every boy dreams of being home alone like that kid in the movie.


23 posted on 12/19/2006 6:29:07 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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To: King of Florida
Or, do what I do and invest in one of these:


or

So much easier to have the baby close to you at all times. Especially in stores and especially at this time of year. I did the whole leave the baby in the bucket car seat for the first few months. Banged my shins, strained my back, and struggled to get the car seat to fit in shopping carts, etc. Boy was that silly. Now I just throw her up on my back or against my chest and I'll never worry about leaving her somewhere.
24 posted on 12/19/2006 6:33:28 AM PST by elc (Slingin' away)
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To: areafiftyone

I'd guess both parents have Alzheimers. I'm surprised they did not forget that they have a baby.


25 posted on 12/19/2006 6:35:26 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: WestTexasWend
My sisters Mother In-law left her baby boy in a stroller outside (this was in the 40's) a store and when she finished shopping she forgot him. When she arrived home her husband asked where the baby was?
The shrink he sent her to determined she wasn't insane.
26 posted on 12/19/2006 6:37:20 AM PST by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: areafiftyone
MY GOD! HOW THE HECK DO YOU FORGET YOUR OWN CHILD??? I just don't understand these people? How preoccupied can they be?

Your probably going to get a lot of anecdotal replies.

My Mom accedently left me at the grocery store when I was two. I think she expected me to get in the car on my own, and I didn't. She didn't realize I wasn't there until a few miles away, my brother asked, "Where's 'The_Victor?'" Even the best parents can have a moment of absentmindedness. We are human.

27 posted on 12/19/2006 6:38:25 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: WestTexasWend

I just keep having images of that opening from the Simpsons where the grocery store clerk picks up baby Maggie out of Marge's shopping cart, runs her through the bar code scanner, and puts her in a shopping bag.


28 posted on 12/19/2006 6:38:29 AM PST by Kenton ("The last time I raped Mother Earth all I got was a bad case of wood ticks")
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To: HEY4QDEMS

I tried this with my 16-yo, he beat me back to the car


29 posted on 12/19/2006 6:41:03 AM PST by sticker
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To: TruthSetsUFree

> both parents thinking the other had the baby.

I agree. My wife and I managed to lose one of the boys in a sporting goods store when we thought the other was watching him. They did the Code Adam lock-down thing, and we found him playing with putters on the little green they have set up to let you try them out. We try to implement 'positive exchage of control', just like you do when flying an airplane: 'You have the child', 'I have the child' and then 'You have the child', but it's hard to pull off! :)


30 posted on 12/19/2006 6:41:50 AM PST by MikeGranby
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To: Red Badger

Excellent point.


31 posted on 12/19/2006 6:42:37 AM PST by tioga
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To: elc

"I'll be dining in this evening, Dad. Don't wait up for me."

32 posted on 12/19/2006 6:42:44 AM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname; LaineyDee
Here's a little story on how this can happen:

On a cool day (~50 degrees) a number of years ago my wife and I went to church with our three small children and my addled father-in-law. I dropped my wife off at the front door with her Dad and I parked the car with the kids in the back of the van. The kids were 4, 3, and one and a half years old at the time. As soon as I parked the car my two kids popped out and I was concerned that they'd get hit in the parking lot so I jumped out of our minivan. All this time my one and a half year old was sitting silently in the seat directly behind me. My mind was concerned about the two older kids and I half thought my wife had our little one so I proceeded into church completely unaware that I had left her.

The ONLY time I thought something was wrong was when I went to her Sunday school class to pick her up and I asked where she was. That's when they told me she was never dropped off. My heart sunk like a stone in realization and I sprinted out to our car. There was my precious baby girl who had obviously cried herself to sleep. Although she has no recollection of this event, to this very day I have nightmares about this incident and will go to my grave remembering that look on her face when I opened the sliding door.

My kids are still fairly young and we ALWAYS do a head count and verbally confirm with one or the other, "You have so and so, and I have so and so." I am deeply thankful to God that this was not a tragedy that I would have to live with for rest of my life.
33 posted on 12/19/2006 6:43:09 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: WestTexasWend
I can remember when our children were little and we would take them shopping. Every time we went down a new isle 1,2,3,4 yep they are all here, every door we went through 1,2,3,4 check. In or out of the car 1,2,3,4 all here. I must have counted to four a million times, never lost a child.
34 posted on 12/19/2006 6:46:40 AM PST by Between the Lines (Liberalism: the insanity that results from too many people living in close proximity to one another.)
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To: The_Victor

Well I have one too about my mom. When she was a baby she walked away from her parents at a beach (this was in the late 1920's) and she was found walking along a highway (of course there was hardly any traffic in those days) having fun happily playing. Needless to say my grandparents were frantic by that time and had the whole police dept out looking for her.


35 posted on 12/19/2006 6:47:00 AM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: areafiftyone

My little brother got left at the grocery store once.


36 posted on 12/19/2006 6:47:47 AM PST by regularperson
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To: Hegemony Cricket

I disagree. The really important thing this season is the Xbox 360. =)


37 posted on 12/19/2006 6:49:25 AM PST by Redcitizen (My other OmniMech is a Masakari)
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To: Red Badger

True, but He wasn't a new-born baby or even a toddler. He was 12 years old.


38 posted on 12/19/2006 6:51:16 AM PST by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) "If God is not, everything is permitted." Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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To: Redcitizen
WHERE'S THE BABY!!!!?????


39 posted on 12/19/2006 6:52:52 AM PST by Dallas59 (Muslims Are Only Guests In Western Countries)
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To: areafiftyone

I totally understand this happening, it happened to me. 2 months after my son was born I was at a local CVS I set down his carrier in an aisle and started looking at cards, next thing I know I am in the check out line without my son! I hurried back to aisle 4 and retrieved him. Being a new father I cut myself a break.


40 posted on 12/19/2006 6:53:42 AM PST by rcamember
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