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.
The reason the mom or dad weren’t aware that their toddler was baking in the car for 8 hours is because mom & dad have given their responsibility to care for the child over to some babysitter. That’s my problem with the whole situation— as a society, we’ve decided that people other than parents do just as good a job at raising our own kids and CLEARLY that isn’t the case, no matter how many different ways people try to justify it.
I truly don’t even blame the mother too much (though her habitual problem with this is concerning— if nothing else, you think being repeatedly “caught” doing it would make her worried about being caught again). She, like most of the rest of us, has been conditioned to think that it’s okay to leave her kids all day with someone else. But I think locking up the mother for much jail time would probably just compound the family’s problems— but is it too much to ask that she not work with kids any more?