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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: ChildOfThe60s

I don't understand how this happens. The rule in our house has always been,when you get home, GET THE BABY FIRST--before groceries, baseball gloves, cold milk, fast food, cell phones laptops, cold drinks--including beer. FIRST.


241 posted on 07/23/2005 10:10:30 AM PDT by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: pa mom

Well, thank you, but I am not active duty any longer...I've been out for about a year now. :)

It makes me wonder too if folks who insist that mom's should stay home no matter would mind subsidizing that. Unless, of course, they think there should be income requirements for having a child. This attitude also fails to take into account women (or men, for that matter) who are single parents due to the death of a spouse, ect. They have no choice but to work. And some folks, let's face it...are not cut out to be stay at home parents. I suspect that that was always the case, as a matter of fact.

And, as everyone knows, if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy! LOL I know I am much more content as a stay at home mom than I was as a working mom, but that's not true of everyone.


242 posted on 07/23/2005 12:05:26 PM PDT by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
I'm not wading through the whole thread, but maybe we'd better take another look at putting kids in the backseat backward.

It would be harder to forget a baby strapped in a car seat next to you in the front seat next to you facing forward.

Maybe it wouldn't hurt to have some parental awareness drills and security guards checking large parking lots with the public's help in the summertime. No government intrusion, of course :-). It would be strictly a communty awareness grass roots type of activism.

I think maybe if I didn't have a dog before kids and hear news stories about dying in hot cars, not to mention that we didn't tend to leave kids in cars unattended as a general principle, it could have happened to me or anybody; that's why I hate to bash parents when a tragedy like this happens.

Maybe some kind of alarm system can be devised. Surely somebody can come up with something.

243 posted on 07/23/2005 12:16:44 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Question. 30 years ago did this also seem to happen at least once every week? Seems it has become a franchise.
244 posted on 07/23/2005 12:28:16 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: exnavychick

Not only that, some folks aren't cut out to be parents at all! Goodness knows it's the hardest thing I've ever done.


245 posted on 07/23/2005 12:28:18 PM PDT by pa mom
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To: pa mom

Yes, some folks should never have reproduced, that's for certain!


246 posted on 07/23/2005 12:32:33 PM PDT by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

This is the perfect crime.
I saw a woman do this exact thing and wasn't charged and no jail time.
If a person wanted to get rid of their kid, like Susan Smith, all they would have to do is wait for a really hot day and forget to drop them off at daycare. No proof it wasn't a tragic accident.


247 posted on 07/23/2005 12:40:47 PM PDT by snowstorm12
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To: cajungirl

'Mommy radar'


248 posted on 07/23/2005 1:13:14 PM PDT by sfimom ('Mommy why did they kill her cause she couldn't talk?' (my daughter age8))
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To: All

I think the Daycare people should have followed up.

Reason? What if the child was being kept home with something infectious which the rest of the children might
be exposed to? As a responsible daycare operator a call should have been made.

I wouldn't leave a child, especially a five month old in a daycare which didn't think enough of my child not to find out where that child was - if I hadn't called explaining the absence - and the child had not been delivered.

I see people driving talking on phones all the time, I see people in the grocery store going over last night's party...
what's so hard these days to make a phone call!

In our next evolution we are going to have phone implants in our heads and we won't need batteries.


249 posted on 07/24/2005 1:21:20 PM PDT by imintrouble
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Sometimes the grief of the offender is worse than punishment by the courts.


250 posted on 07/24/2005 1:28:32 PM PDT by sandydipper (Less government is best government!)
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To: sandydipper

My aunt and uncle had sixteen children, all home at once. They only owned one car and so had to make two trips if they went somewhere together. They never left a child in the car. In fact, the one and only time they forgot was leaving one child at church on the second trip. If they could keep up with sixteen children, this father could have managed to remember one in his care. And I don't care how busy, stressed or absent minded he was. There is NO excuse.


251 posted on 07/24/2005 1:42:33 PM PDT by Conservababe
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To: sandydipper

Neither of which does a thing for the poor soul that was locked in the car. Some things can't be fixed or paid for.


252 posted on 07/24/2005 1:46:30 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there.)
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To: passionfruit
Actually, I can see this happening. When my kids were little, we still put car seats in the fron seat. It was because of airbags that they were moved to the back. Additionally, they now have small infants facing backwards, and the drivers can't see the child. This may be safer in accidents, but makes them "out of sight and out of mind".

They may have also had a "choppy" schedule, like taking turns dropping the baby off at daycare each morning. Mom does it some days, and Dad does in on others.

I just with that, instead of this situation, his mistake had been to forget to pick her up from daycare at the end of the day instead of forgetting to drop her off in the morning. I wonder how often the two actually happen -- forgetting to drop them off vs. forgetting to pick them up?

253 posted on 07/24/2005 3:28:27 PM PDT by RedWhiteBlue
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