Posted on 09/06/2007 7:18:13 AM PDT by Froufrou
No charges will be filed against a middle school administrator whose toddler daughter died last month when she was left in the back seat of her mother's SUV during a heat wave, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Leaving the child in the car for the work day was "a substantial lapse of due care" but did not meet the definition of reckless conduct necessary for prosecution, said Clermont County Prosecutor Don White.
Brenda Nesselroad-Slaby, 40, is assistant principal at Glen Este Middle School, about 20 miles east of Cincinnati. Authorities said she left her 2-year-old daughter, Cecilia, strapped into a car seat for about eight hours on Aug. 23 while she was at work at the school.
Temperatures outside reached about 100 degrees.
Indeed, I have been stupid many times in my life. This isn’t one of them, however.
I have the solution that will end these mistakes forever!
I will mandate that all car manufacturers install (At a modest increase in manufacturing cost, but worth it, if it saves just ONE life...it’s for the children!) a circuit that will sound a loud, obnoxious alarm when a child carrier is still secured to the rear seats, when the engine is turned off or the driver’s door opens!
(SS)A Well Meaning Stupid Bureaucrat
I suppose with no father and no time to visit the abortion clinic “in time” it’s just a “delayed abortion.” The era of callousness towards innocent human life HAS ARRIVED!
I had the same thought.
One mo time........
“Surveillance cameras show that Nesselroad-Slaby returned to the SUV five times during the day, and once moved the SUV to another location in the parking lot.”
Please explain how this fat ass missed her child baking in the sun!
No Dino. She was thinking about
....a huge box of donuts
I tend to be one prejudicial SOB of a curmudgeon, due to my advanced age and amassed (not ALL bad, mind you) experience dealing with those on public payrolls, but I am going to make you a side bet:
this woman had a terrible lapse in memory, with her precious dtr dying, and all some can do is wonder why we just don't lock her up....
a mistake is a mistake....
its not like she was going to the whore house .....
That would support my ‘addiction’ theory nicely...
Well, if my rather mild observation upsets you so much, you’re gonna LOVE this thread. /s
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1892096/posts
“Please put aside the blog’s racial component for the moment, but look at the fact that the prosecutor did bring charges (and won a 1 year jail term) against someone 7 years ago for what appears to be the very thing that he has just excused.”
I wouldn’t say the other couple were guilty of the “very thing” this woman is. If the facts on that blog are true, their actions were much more understandable than this principal.
For the couple - they had briefly left a child in the care of an older sibling.
The child had been left in the van.
Once they figured out where she was they responded to her - and she was alive.
She drank formula and slept on and off.
They called a nurse who suggested tylenol (she had a fever of 101)
Later in the evening she stopped breathing and they took her to the hospital, but it was too late.
They must have thought her fever was not very high, and she was drinking fluids so didn’t comprehend the severity of the damage done to her.
If they get prosecuted - Mrs. Principal should get prosecuted too.
“One mo time........
“Surveillance cameras show that Nesselroad-Slaby returned to the SUV five times during the day, and once moved the SUV to another location in the parking lot.”
Please explain how this fat ass missed her child baking in the sun”
wow.
It almost looks like she meant to cook her.
Who visits their vehicle five times during work hours?
“Surveillance cameras show that Nesselroad-Slaby returned to the SUV five times during the day, and once moved the SUV to another location in the parking lot.”
>>I wish I had pictures of their faces when they came back out to their car to see me holding their kid standing next to a police officer and the newly modified automobile.<<
You are my hero of the day.
She was going to supervise students.
Glad I homeschool!
Do you think she would have been prosecuted if she had been visitng a brothel? Or if she was unemployed and on welfare?
Unbelievable!
“Who visits their vehicle five times during work hours?”
Nope, went to the car 5 times and never even saw the child...just a BIG OL MISTAKE - MY BAD!
Sigh of disgust... The justice system all over America really is broken.
There seem to be more of these cases lately but I would guess that it is likely that they just no longer escape attention; still, except for the truly egregious accounts where the parent apparently doesn’t want to be inconvenienced, like popping into a brothel for a “business” meeting or getting one’s nails done, I can’t help but think that the lifelong guilt serves as a much harsher penalty than any the state could administer.
Children are our conscience, constant reminders that being perfect lies in a different dimension for far more perfect people to occupy.
a dying child will vomit and urinate.
Even if she was unconscious, you would think a reasonable person would think “what is that smell?”
Oh my...this doesn’t sound like the other cases. This gives me the chills.
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