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.
I have an easy question for you. Do you think that a child care situation where someone doesn’t know where a two-year old is for 8 hours is a good child care situation?
>>That’s out of place and an unfair assessment of the situation.<<
IYO. IMO, I’m really glad that my children are not under the charge of an administrator who feels it’s just okay to leave her two year old in a car while she watched her other child’s performance.
“News 5’s Brian Hamrick said the Union Township police report on Cecelia Slaby’s death said that Nesselroad-Slaby left the girl in a car on “numerous occasions”, including at least once in the week prior to the girl’s death.”
THAT’S why I’m glad I homeschool. My children are under my care, and no one else’s. This woman’s judgement sucks.
Kids are all the same, no?
This woman’s judgement does suck - so did the homeschooling father who did yard work while his daughter died
The Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services is investigating to determine whether Cecilia's sister might be at risk.
Please.
>>This woman’s judgement does suck - so did the homeschooling father who did yard work while his daughter died<<
Yup, you’re right.
Which is why I do not leave my children in either of their care.
I don’t trust anyone to take care of my kids and thankfully they are getting to the point where they can take care of themselves.
This woman goes back to her administrative job at a school, with that poor judgement. Was the homeschooling dad in charge of any kids but his own? This broad is.
QFE
This woman’s judgement does suck - so did the homeschooling father who did yard work while his daughter died
It’s not a crime to leave a child in the car for a few minutes. At least it shouldn’t be. It’s sure easier than taking a toddler out of his car seat and putting him back in just to run a 2 minute errand.
No. But that’s a case where the child IS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE, and the person not noticing is pretty pathetic. This woman normally would be dropping off the girl, so she would not normally have the child running around her to “know” or “not know” where she is except generally with a sitter. Not a very good comparison.
>>It’s sure easier than taking a toddler out of his car seat and putting him back in just to run a 2 minute errand.<<
Joke, right?
“THAT’S why I’m glad I homeschool. My children are under my care, and no one else’s.”
That’s ironic, since we’re blaming the MOTHER because she DIDN’T have the child under the care of someone else. She was responsible at that time - and failed.
No. If they got rid of all these stupid regulations (that enrich the baby-product companies, incidentally) requiring even 8yo’s to be strapped in, it’s just a plain fact people would less likely leave a kid in for a “few minutes” in any weather (it’s not all hot, BTW).
P.S: it’s also more likely a child left in the car would now have the ability to beat on the car windows and get attention, than stuck far from a window.
>>That’s ironic, since we’re blaming the MOTHER because she DIDN’T have the child under the care of someone else. She was responsible at that time - and failed<<
Who is “We”?
Not me. I blame her for baking her kid. I blame the school district for keeping a woman as an administrator who thought it was a good idea to leave a child in a car while getting another. Personally, I believe mothers should be home with their kids. She wouldn’t be thinking the baby was at the sitter if she never went to one.
But ladies work for whatever reason.
My whole thing is that she was warned in the past.
Each of us can make a tragic stupid mistake.
This one disregarded the warning and caused a tragic stupid mistake.
That poster was talking about a 2 year old not an 8 year old.
Regardless, frankly, it was still an accident, even if she forgets 10x.
I don’t like beating up people based on accidents. Even if you can argue it’s “gross negligence”. If so, give them a decent fine and be done with it. The family will probably suffer enough.
An awful lot of kids used to fly through windshields, before seatbelts existed.
But I agree with you about the government mandated airbags --airbags that were designed to stop a hypothetical app. 180 pound, 6 foot tall man who was not wearing a seat belt from going through the windshield.
Govt bureaucrats knew that airbags designed to those specifications would, predictably, kill a certain number of children (as well as adults of small stature).
I believe there should have been prosecutions of those bureaucrats who approved --and mandated-- that airbag design.
Would you be championing this woman if she had killed someone after her fourth DUI?
It’s the same thing.
As my father used to say,
“Some accidents happen. Some are caused.”
She was warned and disregarded it. This was caused.
How did she FORGET to STOP AT THE DAYCARE???hhhhhhmmmmmmm. Munchhausen by Proxy?
Nothing to do with my point.
Everyone is on the kick now of “for the children” in order to force more laws on us and make normal people outlaws, possibly to make the judges feel better that they got “bad guys” when they really should be beating up and executing the murderers, rapists, and robbers.
2yos are in a MORE DIFFICULT situation when strapped in like going on the wild ride at Six Flags exactly because they’re smaller and otherwise immature compared to 8yo’s - they are less likely to be seen or heard being smaller while stuck in their regulated chairs, and less likely to know how to get out of a bad situation, such as calling out to others for help, etc.
The plain fact is, also, that people are more likely to say “skip it” when “running in” to the cleaners with a very young kid (I say that because again, they are more like dead-weight than an older child, who can free himself from said strait-jacket and not bother the parent). Regulations like this make it harder on every-day life and people are more likely to “drop the ball”.
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