Posted on 07/25/2014 1:27:49 PM PDT by eccentric
Wichita police say a 10-month-old baby was left alone in a hot car for two to two and a half hours Thursday afternoon. The girl was found dead at around 6:40 pm in the 1500 block of S. Topeka.
Police say the girl's 29-year-old foster father picked her up from a babysitter at around 4:00 in the afternoon. They returned to the home along with a five-year-old child. Police say, somehow, the child was left behind in the car as the 29-year-old and the 5-year-old went inside.
The foster father's partner, a 26-year-old man who is also a foster parent, was in the backyard when they came home and didn't realize the young girl was not inside.
Police say the two were watching TV when they realized the girl was not in the house. They found the girl unresponsive, brought her inside and called 911.
Emergency crews were dispatched to the home and pronounced the girl dead.
Police took both men in for questioning, then arrested the 29-year-old on one count of Aggravated Child Endangerment. Police expect to present their case to the District Attorney's Office next week.
Police say the girl has lived with the foster parents since last fall, and they were in the process of adopting her. They adopted five and seven year old children. Those two were taken into police protective custody.
Three other foster children live in the home, they are staying with other family members.
Police do not know how hot it was in the car when the girl was found.
Police are tracking down family members before releasing any names.
Back in the stone age of the public school system, most schools had a course called ‘home-economics’ I think it was learning the basic skills one needed to be a housewife. That was either done away with or changed a great deal. Maybe those classes really were helping girls learn how to care for an infant. Boys should learn too, so they can offer assistance.
The Court System should offer mandatory training programs if they don’t already. Similar to driver’s ed.
According to KAKE news report: “Jackson, 29, and the other man, 26, have two adopted children and four foster children, including the baby girl they were trying to adopt. The others range in age from from 3 to 18 years old.”
18-year old foster child with 26 & 29 year old men?
Expect this story to now go away quietly.
I assure you the percentage incidents of this type of thing are the same every year. I am in my forties and can remember this sort of thing happening when I was a child.
The difference is that back then we had NO 24/7 news outlets, smart phones, twitter and social media whose entire purpose is to run everyone blood pressure up all the time with the look at me, or look how stupid, evil that one is.
People make mistakes. If an investigation shows that the incident was an accident, what purpose would be served if we incarcerate the person. They are already suffering incredibly.
Call me a homophobe, but guys make terrible moms.
Google “baby car alarm” and there are scores/hundreds, but that won’t eliminate the sad fact that it happens.
I have raised five ten month olds. They almost universally fall asleep in a car and they are very quiet when sleeping.
If you are not normally transporting a child in the car and that child falls asleep. They could be overlooked once someone reaches their destination.
I did a lot of driving around with my uncle when I was young. He went to various businesses, and I stayed in the car. But my uncle was a fan of vintage cars (he restored quite a few,) and refused to own anything more recent than World War II. Those cars had no power locks, power windows, or anything else. I could always roll a window down, or open the door and exit, even if the door was locked from outside (which it wasn't.) It may be that modern, highly automated cars simply don't let you exit if you don't have the keyfob or know to reach for the driver's door and press a certain button.
I'm sorry but there is NO WAY I would overlook something like that.
Just so very sad.
“I agree! I watch JEOPARDY every day. The questions are getting easier every year, because we are all being dumbed down”
I’m 66, a baby boomer. A product of the best public schools of my era, California.
My grandfather and father had fought in world wars. All had survived the depression, as well.
So when my generation came along during the fun, peaceful, technology-consumer driven 1950s, we were taught about things that really matters.
I got my behind whacked if I talked back, or disobeyed important rules. Bad grades were not acceptable.
If a kid had little discipline at home, bad or broken home, he went on of two ways: Eventually you stayed away because your own folks said so, and the kid got lousy results, or the kid followed the rules your parents were teaching you.
Today too many kids get little good training at home, and the bad friends overrule the good ones. Schools harm at least as much as they help.
Kids get obese because their parents are too, from eating, not genetics.
In some ways America’s post WWII success, is also our curse. Too much, for too many, for too little.
I think your average kid in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan gets better educations than ours.
There is no excuse for forgetting you are a parent.
“The foster father’s partner, a 26-year-old man who is also a foster parent, was in the backyard when they came home and didn’t realize the young girl was not inside.”
So how much were these wonderful gay foster guys getting paid per month for these poor kids?
“I assure you the percentage incidents of this type of thing are the same every year. I am in my forties and can remember this sort of thing happening when I was a child.”
I am not convinced it has been a constant rate of such incidents.
Can you show that it is.
Where did you find this book? Was it a school assignment?
The Wasp Factory has got to be one of the most BIZARRE, ghoulish and violent books I have ever read about. It makes Clockwork Orange sound like a Sunday Picnic with the girl scouts. This Wasp book was released in 1984. The imagery in this book is quite vivid. I would be surprised if no one has attempted to make a movie out of it. Or have they? It is disturbing as can be, but still, it is intriquing in a Dystopian sort of way. The movie would most likely be either rated X, if that is still done, or Not Rated at all, because it fits in no general category except horror.
This kind of absurd “accident” should get you jail time. An adult’s negligence (or intent) caused the tortuous death of another human being.
Both sexes, not "both genders".
So let’s put them in prison.
this happens very rarely. Around 15 times a year in a country of 300 millions. It Is almost always accidental.
No one excuses it, certainly not the parent that it happens to. I can only imagine the incredible guilt associated with this. That being said. People are people. They are imperfect. Some of the most perfect people are imperfect. I am sure you have made terrible decisions and forgot many important things.
We all make mistakes. Most of us are fortunate enough that our mistakes don’t end a life. Some people are not so fortunate.
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