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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: DTogo

Not only that, how could he get into his car that afternoon without seeing her in the backseat?


21 posted on 07/22/2005 3:22:43 PM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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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.

I bet your nick name is 'QB'.

What an ignorant thing to say.

LVM - a man.

22 posted on 07/22/2005 3:23:00 PM PDT by LasVegasMac ("God. Guts. Guns. I don't call 911." (bumper sticker))
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To: newsworthy

Many, many. Especially if it was a surprise pregnancy and they hadn't gotten to a place where they could both stay home.


23 posted on 07/22/2005 3:23:00 PM PDT by pa mom
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To: newsworthy

People put kids in daycare.

SOMEONE NEEDS TO INVENT AN ALARM THAT WOULD GO OFF WHEN THE CAR IS STOPPED AND THE BABY'S SEATBELT IS NOT OPENED. IT IS EASY AND WOULD BE CHEAP AND WOULD SAVE LIVES.


24 posted on 07/22/2005 3:23:02 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
The whole staff of this media outlet needs to be fired for writing this unreadable article. Wow.
25 posted on 07/22/2005 3:23:09 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: DTogo

Meth? How could he not smell anything?


26 posted on 07/22/2005 3:24:27 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
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To: DTogo

That's what I am wondering also. Why did he not notice the infant while he was driving to the daycare??? Very odd.


27 posted on 07/22/2005 3:24:36 PM PDT by Reagan79 (www.ird-renew.org)
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To: paulat
Why didn't the daycare call the parents and ask where the baby was??? A daycare should have home and work numbers for both parents!!!!

Do not make this about the daycare center. This is a horrible tragedy. I feel terrible for the parents, particularly the father who will have to live with this guilt for the rest of his life. But ultimately the fault lies with the father.

28 posted on 07/22/2005 3:24:42 PM PDT by old and tired
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To: adorno

lol

We're thinking alike.


29 posted on 07/22/2005 3:24:44 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Not only did he forget to drop her off. He supposedly didn't notice that she was still in her car seat when he got back into his car and drove to th sitter's.

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".


30 posted on 07/22/2005 3:24:55 PM PDT by passionfruit (Using the ethernet to try to catch the etherbunny.)
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To: television is just wrong
What the heck is wrong with people?

Poor upbringing, 'me generation', too much TV, I don't know. Way too many don't have what it takes to be good parents. Ya gotta care, and you can't be selfish.

31 posted on 07/22/2005 3:25:01 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Semper Fi ~)
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To: newsworthy
What kind of man (or woman, for that matter) would put a five-month-old in daycare?

The kind that have to work, and aren't lucky enough to have a relative willing to babysit, that's the kind.

32 posted on 07/22/2005 3:25:32 PM PDT by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: Reagan79

parents of babies often aren't sleeping, are tired and get distracted. You know how you are driving and all of a sudden realize you missed your exit. It happens every year. I don't think they plan to kill their babies. And it happens to women too so it isn't a man thing.


33 posted on 07/22/2005 3:25:59 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: joshhiggins

I hate airbags. I really miss the days when your youngsters kids could ride shotgun. We had our best times then, talking and singing to the radio.

My two older kids were able to ride up front until we eventually got a car with an airbag. My little girl never got the opportunity. She has a horrible sense of direction, and I think it's because she can never see past the heads in the front seat.


34 posted on 07/22/2005 3:26:25 PM PDT by keats5
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To: pa mom

Whatever rationale is given, it's a form of abuse.


35 posted on 07/22/2005 3:27:01 PM PDT by newsworthy (Culture is the engine of history.)
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To: passionfruit
but makes them "out of sight and out of mind".

Sorry....never ever...no way.

36 posted on 07/22/2005 3:27:23 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Semper Fi ~)
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To: savedbygrace

Seems very suspicious, like he's trying to use absent-mindedness to get away with something nefarious. The mom may be in on it, too. I'd investigate it as a possible homocide.


37 posted on 07/22/2005 3:27:42 PM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: newsworthy

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

Someone too busy to take care of his kid.


38 posted on 07/22/2005 3:28:21 PM PDT by keats5
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To: television is just wrong

I forgot my two year old son was in the back seat once. I just popped in to a store for 2 minutes and was parked right next to the front door. It wasn't hot or anything, but I still felt like the stupidest guy on earth after the incident.

I can't even imagine how this guy must feel. If it were me, I'd probably need suicide watch.


39 posted on 07/22/2005 3:28:32 PM PDT by muu
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To: joshhiggins
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.

Another airbag death added to the ones that happen when a mother or father turns around to pacify a screaming child. It used to be so easy when all you had to do was reach right next to you and plug the pacifier back in the baby's mouth.

40 posted on 07/22/2005 3:28:35 PM PDT by old and tired
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