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.
Then the day care people said hey, there she is in the car?
I didn't glean the same interpretation you did. Dad made an unforgivable mistake.
Close...I don't think they said anything to the Dad about the baby being in the car...
It's amazing how many times this story is told each summer.
Yes, that part I agree with your interpretation.
Then the day care people said hey, there she is in the car?
Not sure about that part. Sounds to me like once they told him she never arrived that morning the dumb ass realized that he had left her in the car all day which means he drove to work, parked, left her there for however many hours. Then, after work drove to day care to pick her up. The rest is, well, very sad!
No, i think the dad suddenly remembered not dropping her off when the daycare people said she was not there all day.
I hate these stories. Terrible terrible terrible.
Amazing.....several times last summer. Do these people ever forget the kid during the spring, winter or fall? Makes me ill....and mad!
Airbags have made it unsafe to place infant car seats in the front, and consequently they are placed in the backseat, where they can be easily forgotten.
It would be almost impossible to "Forget" an infant, if it was in the seat next to you.
We put the tiny ones in the back seat to keep them safe and forget they are there. Wouldn't it be safer to have them in the front seat, so you don't forget them?
When will be the next time he forgets her little face in that carseat?
WTF??
How do you forget your child?
The most boneheaded I've ever been is when I closed the trunk on fingers...once and only once...but leaving the child strapped in the carseat?
No flippin' way.
What kind of man (or woman, for that matter) would put a five-month-old in daycare?
Some people really should not be entrusted to have children.
Apparently it happens a lot. I have two kids. Never forgot they were in the car with me. What the heck is wrong with people?
I don't know anyone who has ever forgotten they had a kid in the car. I just don't get this. How do you forget your child? Even in the back seat?
You would think that with all technological advances of modern day, somebody would have come up with a device to recognize and warn a driver that an infant or child is in the vehicle. Not only that, a loud siren should be part of the warning signal so that anybody in the vicinity would also be warned. That baby must've been in a car seat and a car seat should be capable of being electronically connected to a warning signal that goes off as soon as a driver turns off the car or exits the car.
I'm not trying to excuse the driver in this instance, but this kind of tragedy happens too often.
Some smart person needs to come up with a carseat alarm. If there is a baby in the carseat, door opens, and an alarm goes off. Baby care for dummies.
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