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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: newsworthy
What kind of man (or woman, for that matter) would put a five-month-old in daycare?

Um, well, apparently not this kind.

201 posted on 07/22/2005 6:02:44 PM PDT by Stu Cohen (Press '1' for English)
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To: Stu Cohen

laughing in spite of myself. You are baaaaddd.


202 posted on 07/22/2005 6:05:40 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: NautiNurse
I have a hard time believing that any sane parent could forget that he put his daughter in the car.When my kids were that small I would always be looking in the mirror to make sure they were alright.I can't understand how this could happen to a normal person.I can see forgetting a grocery bag in the car but we're talking about a baby that we love and protect.
203 posted on 07/22/2005 6:12:51 PM PDT by rdcorso (When Bill Heard The Word Double-Wide He Thought It Referred To Hillary's Ass)
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To: pa mom

I've learned that it's when they get quiet that you have to start worrying.


204 posted on 07/22/2005 6:13:38 PM PDT by Desron13 (If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
A case of government-mandated rules that do not, and cannot, take into account the human tendency to err and to make mistakes. Mandated use of seat belts injure and kill some, and leave others to die in burning autos. This mandated rule of placing children out of sight while busy parents, preoccupied with daily problems, work schedules and busy traffic, ignores a human weakness--forgetfulness and the effects of stress on otherwise responsible individuals!

This poor father, and other fathers and mothers who may have poor memory, or may be undergoing extreme mental and emotional stress of family or job are prone to make terrible mistakes.

All of the rest of us can say simply: "There, but for the grace of God, go I."

Many young fathers, today, are parenting their children in extraordinary ways. They are to be commended, not censured. If, however, it can be proven that a crime occurred, then this father should be punished.

205 posted on 07/22/2005 6:15:26 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: rdcorso

Is it a hard time believing or a hard time imagining?

There are several stories of people who "forgot" children, had lapses. This happens, I mean it did, but do you think he killed this child on purporse?


206 posted on 07/22/2005 6:16:01 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: loveliberty2

Bravo! I agree.


207 posted on 07/22/2005 6:17:13 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: joshhiggins

so, your telling me you can't see in the back of your car at all....Just the top of the seat and thats it??????Then you must be really tall.Beacause I can see in the back of my seat when I'm looking out the rear view mirror...especially,my godsons carseat.... maybe,the man wanted to get rid the baby and that was a good way to do it.no fuss no muss and no jail time.....


208 posted on 07/22/2005 6:21:53 PM PDT by fishbabe
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To: fishbabe

You believe that? No fuss, no muss, no jail?

Did you read the article that was posted, the link, upthread? He was inconsolable, he broke thru the window with his fists to get to the baby, he was described by coworkers as adoring that child, talking about her.


209 posted on 07/22/2005 6:27:07 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl

how many parents who killed their own children had that same attitude???remember susan smith..she was devastated...she was also play-acting...I mean,think about it...no one called the day care to see how the baby was??no one from day care called asking where the baby was??most new mothers won't even go out for dinner and leave the baby..Yet,these parents left the girl all day at day care and nobody called???all day?????


210 posted on 07/22/2005 6:31:18 PM PDT by fishbabe
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To: fishbabe

It is a long way from not calling the day care all day to murdering a child.

New mothers by age 5 months in a good percent of the populations have their children in day care. You may think that is proof of a capacity to murder children but that is stretching it.


211 posted on 07/22/2005 6:36:39 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: fishbabe
so, your telling me you can't see in the back of your car at all....Just the top of the seat and thats it?

Yes that's correct. When my rearview mirror is properly aligned, I can only see the rear window, not the rear seats.

Then you must be really tall

I'm six feet tall, I don't know if that is really tall for you, but it seems normal for me.

maybe,the man wanted to get rid the baby and that was a good way to do it.no fuss no muss and no jail time.....

That's possible, but I think it is more likely that he was abducted by space aliens, had his memory erased at the conclusion of the abduction, and the poor infant was the innocent victim of the abduction.

212 posted on 07/22/2005 6:36:40 PM PDT by joshhiggins
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Wonder if old dad has an insurance policy on her?


213 posted on 07/22/2005 6:46:50 PM PDT by philetus (What goes around comes around)
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To: cajungirl

parents of five month old children in day care don't call all day and you don't find that strange????even on lunch hour or a quick 10 minute break and they had better things to do than check up on their child?????yes,i find it strange because I'm a single woman surrounded by parents and all they do is call to check up on their kids all day long...On lunch hour they are out the door to go see the kid....and I would bet most of your friends and family members,who are parents are the same way....


214 posted on 07/22/2005 6:48:41 PM PDT by fishbabe
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To: paulat
READ MY FRIGGIN' POSTS!!!!

OH SO ***I'M SUPPOSED TO READ ALL OF YOUR POSTS BEFORE I RESPONED TO YOUR ORIGINAL POST?***

Jump in it DUDE!!!

215 posted on 07/22/2005 6:51:42 PM PDT by steveo (Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
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To: philetus

You may be called a cynic but I wonder if good old dad had a policy on her too.....I've been surrounded by parents in my workplace for years and all they do is call to check up on their kids...And these 2 parents never called the day care?????I mean to leave a 5 month old and never check up on her????Something smells rotten in this story...


216 posted on 07/22/2005 6:54:11 PM PDT by fishbabe
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To: fishbabe

No, the people I know whose children are in day care are not calling all day long. Most won't leave their kids in a place they feel like they have to check on all day. The first couple of weeks there is anxiety and they call. But once they feel like the kids are adjusted, they don't call all day.

Anyone who is checking all day and is that preoccupied, ought not have their child in day care or with a sitter.


217 posted on 07/22/2005 6:56:09 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Halls
true, but any real responsible parent doesn't forget their kid is in the back seat.

If having a consistently perfect memory is a defining characteristic of a "Real responsible parent" then I stand convicted as an "irresponsible parent".

There have been many times I have looked over my shoulder to double check that the kids are all in the back seat. How irresponsible of me to have forgotten whether they were there or not.

218 posted on 07/22/2005 7:00:45 PM PDT by joshhiggins
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To: StinkyDilly
That just goes to show you, if you want something done right, never give it to a man to do.

Last time I read one of these stories it was the mother, a doctor no less. Did the same thing

219 posted on 07/22/2005 7:07:04 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: StinkyDilly

I understand.


220 posted on 07/22/2005 7:15:52 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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