Posted on 07/22/2005 3:08:56 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s
Infant Girl Left In Hot Car Dies
A baby was found dead inside a car Thursday after her father went to pick her up at her daycare and workers there told him she had never arrived, authorities said.
Gabriel Saavedra rushed out to his car at Storybook Nursery School and found his tiny daughter, Kayli, still strapped in her infant seat from that morning, police said.
Emergency workers said the girl, who would have been 5 months old on Saturday, was declared dead on the scene.
I have a hard time understanding how someone could "forget" their child is in the car. I have three, 21, 19 & 17. My wife and I managed not to " forget " them in the car, not once, not ever.
There really could be something simple. Like a telephone cord, the curly ones, from the babys car seat to the inside driver's door. Sort of thread it from the car seat, attach it to the door and voila, you couldn't open the door without realizing.
I do think an alarm is the answer.
A 5 month old in day care, how sad
Some folks are too stupid to breed. I'm sorry the little girl had parents of that type.
I regularly forget my phone, my purse, my keys... papers, grocery lists, etc. But never have I EVER forgotten any of my children-- front seat.. back seat, didn't matter one bit either.
I can't comprehend this at all.
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YAY!!! Someone I can agree with. I can't either.
Apparently it happens rarely. So it doesn't happen for the large, large majority of us. But that doesn't mean it couldln't happen to someone else, someone who doesn't have evil intent or bad character.
Time for a mandatory vasectomy....eh?
It does help...:)
It would be almost impossible to "Forget" an infant, if it was in the seat next to you.
If you are serious you are either not a parent or a very inept one and I do not apologize if this offends you. Let me tell you, if my wife or I EVER forgot a child we each would have known that the other spouse would have murdered us without any hesitation, and I do not mean in a kindly and simple manner such as using a gun. We would have painfully dismembered the other. 'Forgetting' a tiny infant is unbelievable and inexcusable!!!!
We couldn't find our portable phone the other day so we kept calling ourselves using the cell.
Finally, never hearing it, I went to get ice cream from the freezer that night and found the phone, in the freezer. I have a vague memory of talking on the phone, putting away groceries.
Yes, you should have.
As a Father of two young one's, I now feel the blood pressure dropping........:)
Thanks.
LVM
You would murder your wife if this happened with her and a baby?
ARe you for real?
What kind of man (or woman, for that matter) would put a five-month-old in daycare?
Amen. You have said it all.
If there is a baby in the carseat, door opens, and an alarm goes off. Baby care for dummies.
Guess they need one for bath tubs, living rooms, bedrooms, play pens, high chairs and just about every other place one can 'forget' a child. There isn't any 'alarm' to guard against plain stupidity.
Women like you are why sites like this are springing up.
particularly the father who will have to live with this guilt for the rest of his life.
Frankly, I don't think he sounds like that kind of 'father'. My guess is that he'll be at ballgame or bowling alley within a week and not look back. Anyone who is this uninterested in his child is a dud. When our kids were little, and I mean really little, we TALKED to them when they were in the car, and sang to them. My guess is he had the radio on, or was talking on his cell phone and simply didn't even think about the baby.
I now officially hate this thread.
It always goes this way.
I am a parent, and I don't think of myself as "inept", but I am also a Human being, with Human shortcomings, and distractions. I know I don't always perform perfectly under all circumstances, so I can understand how these tragedies can occur.
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