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Infant Girl Left In Hot Car Dies (the father forgot she was in the car?)
The Lakeland Ledger ^ | July 22, 2005 | Staff

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cars; death; kids; more2thestory; somethingisfishy; veryveryodd
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To: dixiechick2; newsworthy; texasmama; All

I put two of my five boys in daycare at six weeks also. Of course, being military, I HAD to go into work, and also due to being military, I had no family near to watch them in lieu of daycare. It wasn't something I wanted to do, but had to, thanks to prior obligations. As soon as my tour was up, I got out and now am a SAHM, but that's only thanks to Mr. Ex's job and careful budgeting.

Tell me to my face I abused my children by placing them in daycare...REALLY. Claiming such a thing is both arrogant and ignorant.


141 posted on 07/22/2005 4:30:54 PM PDT by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: cajungirl

LOL! Doesn't it just?


142 posted on 07/22/2005 4:31:29 PM PDT by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: cajungirl

We've had some incidents that could have turned out disastrously, and fortunately didn't.


143 posted on 07/22/2005 4:31:50 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
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To: joshhiggins

I am with you.

The hubris and sanctimony on this thread are not surprising, lately it is all over FR.


144 posted on 07/22/2005 4:31:50 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl

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.

****

I have also done stuff like that, but not with my with human beings. Just inanimate objects. Sorry.


145 posted on 07/22/2005 4:31:59 PM PDT by jdhljc169
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To: cajungirl

If I never see those links again, it will be too soon. Talk about a one-thought poster!


146 posted on 07/22/2005 4:32:49 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
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To: Tax-chick

We all have except for the hateful creeps on this thread who are so full of themselves that they are tempting fate. And the ones who know all the answers.


147 posted on 07/22/2005 4:32:55 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: texasmama; Texas Mom

Texasmama:

My apologies!! I mixed up my FReepers! I'm sorry, that post WASN'T directed to you, but to Texas Mom. :(


148 posted on 07/22/2005 4:33:12 PM PDT by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: jdhljc169

Why are you sorry? nobody asked you if you were or not.


149 posted on 07/22/2005 4:34:21 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: exnavychick; All

Not all men are oblivious to the needs of babies and toddlers, but some really are. I know, because my own deceased dad was one of those who my mom learned the hard way not to trust to babysit.

When I was about 3, and my next in line sib was toddling about, my mom left my dad in charge on a nice Saturday afternon. She came home to my toddling sis with a face full of motor oil, and diaper solids smeared all over her face, in the driveway of our lil house, and my dad, oblivious, with his nose in a book.

She went on to have 5 more sibs with this delightful dolt, but learned not to let him "baby-sit" ever again. He just didn't have a clue. He was a good provider, but just didn't have that gene for "lil kid care".

Some men don't. I am an old mom now, and wise. I was lucky to have a husband who did have the "lil kid care" gene, but never forgot about my dad's blind spot. We are not all the same, but we mothers must figure out whether the guy we pick to father our precious ones are suited to how fast the lil ones can get into big trouble.

Any of you older moms remember how quickly we learned to pick up on an odd silence in the house, and knew that we better go find out why it was so quiet, and what the heck they had gotten into?


150 posted on 07/22/2005 4:34:49 PM PDT by jacquej
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To: StinkyDilly

Don't worry. We've all posted things that didn't come off the way we expected ... and been romped and stomped all over.


151 posted on 07/22/2005 4:35:41 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
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To: RXSalesman

I don't know how a driver of an Olds Cutlass Ciena could miss a child in the back seat. Anyway, from this updated news account, obviously there was miscommunication between the parents. The guy said he didn't know the child was in the car. Perhaps she placed the sleeping child there, but he didn't know it. The 23-year old father & the child's mother shared the use of the vehicle. Too many unanswered questions.


152 posted on 07/22/2005 4:37:02 PM PDT by RXSalesman
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To: joshhiggins; Texas Mom

"I interpreted it as another "airbag" death."

These things happened before airbags. Plenty of people would have the car seat in the back seat all the time even before airbags. Either for safety, or because the two parents would ride in the front. The car seats are a pain to move from place to place.


153 posted on 07/22/2005 4:37:11 PM PDT by jocon307 (Can we close the border NOW?)
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To: jacquej

You are right.

I remember suddenly stopping what I was doing, knowing somehting was wrong, just knowing it. And usually it was. I could never decide how I knew, I just did.

One of our kids had respiratory apnea, the thing associated with SID. It was before alarms and all.She slept next to our bed for several months and when she stopped breathing for more than a few secs, hubby and I both woke simultaneously. We always knew.


154 posted on 07/22/2005 4:37:39 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: jacquej

Oh, I know! My hubby has done similar things. :) But he would never forget one of our babies.

Silence isn't a welcome thing in my house, either, lol. It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.


155 posted on 07/22/2005 4:38:38 PM PDT by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: hardworking
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.

So, your argument is that because things can and do go wrong you need not try to take preventive and corrective actions other than a good memory?

Gime me a break!

If anybody in FR is machanically/electronically inclined, there is probably a simple electronic gadget which can be invented (if it hasn't been done yet) which can help prevent many if not most of those baby deaths in locked cars. Let me know.
156 posted on 07/22/2005 4:38:54 PM PDT by adorno (The democrats are the best recruiting tool the terrorists could ever have.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

My niece is ten now, but when she was an infant, the neighbors looked out and there she was, in her car seat, alone in the driveway. It was wintertime, and very cold.

My sister's husband had set her down there when he was loading up the car and had driven off and forgotten her. The neighbors got the baby, brought her in their house, and called my sister at her job. That's one phonecall she will never forget.


157 posted on 07/22/2005 4:41:14 PM PDT by JockoManning (www.biblegateway.com)
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To: StinkyDilly

>>Anyhew, I made a joke, thought it was funny. Sorry if I offended.<<

No offense taken. I don't know what to make of all these "accidents." I'm a skeptic by nature.

Anyway, who really knows but the dad?


159 posted on 07/22/2005 4:43:32 PM PDT by SerpentDove (Mmmm...me...)
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To: jocon307

Your right, but I think that air bags have made these occurences more common. When my children were young I always kept the car seat in the front. I can't envision myself forgetting a child in the front seat, but I can in the back.


160 posted on 07/22/2005 4:43:57 PM PDT by joshhiggins
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