Then the day care people said hey, there she is in the car?
Maybe the state should put him in the electric char and forget that HE is there.
I have a hard time understanding how someone could "forget" their child is in the car. I have three, 21, 19 & 17. My wife and I managed not to " forget " them in the car, not once, not ever.
A 5 month old in day care, how sad
Some folks are too stupid to breed. I'm sorry the little girl had parents of that type.
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.
When I was working at the pharmacy developing photos last fall (I got a new and better job recently), there was a case where the local fireman and policemen were looking for a 7 year old boy who was lost. They came into our store 3 or 4 times and we all went around to look for him in case he came in. Well it turned out the father forget to pick him up from some classes (I don't know if it was for sports, I talked to the firemen after I left work) and must have thought he had him in the car. I can see if he forgot his Palm Pilot or something but his kid, I'm just scratching my head.
This is tragic, and it is the result of the insane laws that say an infant seat MUST be in the back seat of a car.
They can end this by putting infant seats back up front.
Early in the morning, routine, sleepy driver, traffic....and the guy just starts following the pattern of driving to work.
All I can come up with is that these people MUST be on drugs.
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.
Wonder if old dad has an insurance policy on her?
He should be sterilized immediately. Anyone that did that shouldn't be allowed to breed anymoer. Neglectful or stupid-we don't need more 'parents' who are either.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes the grief of the offender is worse than punishment by the courts.