Posted on 08/23/2007 6:08:28 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Each Parent Thought The Other Was Taking Daughter To Child Care
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI-myFOXstl.com) --
A 7 month old baby girl died after police say she was left in a locked car for 4 hours in the sweltering summer heat.
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scenario,
the family is ready to leave, Mom is inside and is looking for her purse and beeper. Dad puts baby in the back seat of moms car, since they communicate so well he believes she is going to drop the baby off at day care.
Mom comes out gets in the car and leaves with the baby, dad gets in his car and goes to work.
Mom thought dad was taken the baby to daycare. And rushes to work. Leaves sleeping baby in car seat and goes into the hospital.
sad.
“This couple is so in my prayers.”
Mine as well.
“So who put her in the car and walked off?”
Having worked in academia a good part of my life....
my bet is on the one with the most/highest degrees.
And being in Mid-Missouri and suffering the 105 deg F temps last week
and the usual +100 deg F discomfort indices for the past week or two...
if I was on a jury, I’d vote guilty if it meant the negligent parent
got locked into an enclosed box, heated with ambient heat and solar
radiation once a week during July and August for the next 5 years.
(and kept from going into total shock/dying by monitoring telemetry
on their core temperature)
For a couple to be in flyover country during summer and not pay attention
to where their child is in regards to the car...
CRIMINAL!!!
I'm all for passing judgement when it means something -- every person on this planet must past judgements in order to survive. You walk into a restaurant that smells like rotten grease and has a foul-looking fry cook behind the grill, you pass a few judgements, you turn around and walk out, and save yourself a bad case of ptomaine poisoning. There's a lot to be said for passing judgement.
But pax et bonum, you are SO RIGHT to be disgusted with the posters here who are so quick to condemn the parents. I'll pass a judgement here -- such posters are chumps (and probably self-righteous mothers who are pains to their kids), every one of them. Better to pray for the comfort of the poor parents and then list our own happy blessings and thank God mightily for them. There but for the grace of God goes me -- and every poster on this forum.
Well said; thanks for posting.
What a creep you are.
Here's another tip for parents:
Advise your lawmakers that you don't need help being a parent and that you are henceforth putting your child in the front seat where you can watch him or her.
Not only are you less likely to leave the child in the back seat while having brunch at Starbucks, but you can determine instantly whether or not you need to do something like open its airway.
That’s how I figured it. The confusion was that one of them put the baby in the other ones car, and thought they understood they were responsible for the child. The baby made no noise, and wasn’t discovered. Tragic. Both parents will never get over this. How horrible.
I'm for that kind of judgement, too, and I don't think that Christ had in mind that we mindlessly eat foul food.
The judgement I'm speaking of is the judgement of the soul, which is invisible and only God can see.
:-)
Amen. Exactly.
Continued:
I'll pass a judgement here -- such posters are chumps (and probably self-righteous mothers who are pains to their kids), every one of them. Better to pray for the comfort of the poor parents and then list our own happy blessings and thank God mightily for them. There but for the grace of God goes me -- and every poster on this forum.
Excellent!
The "self-righteous mothers who are pains to their kids" is very... insightful.
;-)
Yep. Agreed. And I join many others in this thead in thanking you for such an eloquent post! Prayers for the poor parents of this kid. He works His wonders in strange and mysterious ways.
These stories make me cry - for the child that probably cried so hard for his mommy or daddy to come and save him until he was so tired and hot that he passed out, and for the parents that will NEVER stop punishing themselves for making this horrible error. It's heartbreaking all around.
Call it a lucky guess. We all know the type, don't we? ;^) "There's nothing new under the sun."
A 7 month old belongs with her mother, not in a daycare.
Couples should be prepared to have the mother home for a year before going back to work.
Wow. Thanks.
I have a confession; I was very, very angry. I don’t get angry very often but this pushed the button.
Those poor people. I hope they can find peace... or, rather, that Peace will hold them in the palm of His Hand...
Thank you. She is the physician. She can’t find it in herself, I guess, to care for her own babies. She needs to keep her patients. I don’t think I would use her.
I totally understand - things can and do happen. I guess that the baby left in the back seat has been so much in the public eye that I would take an extra 10 seconds to think of something out of the ordinary to remind me I had the child if it was not part of the normal routine. Like drive with a diaper in my lap or something. I would also relentlessly bug my spouse to do likewise if he was the one transporting a child outside of normal routine. (And knowing me, I’d probably follow up with a phone call as well to see how the “dropping off” went.)
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