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".
Sorry....never ever...no way.
At what point will the number of children dead from left in hot cars exceed the number of children dead from accidents in which they weren't properly restrained?
I shudder to think that I used to drive around with my kids rolling around loose in the back of the station wagon.
This happened to a guy at my work. His wife (who also works here), usually took the kid to daycare, but on this day, he did as she had a meeting. Mom goes to pick up the baby after work, and the daycare tells her he is not there. SO she calls dad on the cell and asks where the son is. It was then he realized he had forgotten to drop the baby off. He ran to the parking lot, she ran from the daycare (it is in close proximity to our work) to the lot...the police were called. Dad was afraid to open the car door, mom was prone on the pavement screaming. They finaly opened the door..and LUCKILY, the baby was still alive, though he had been trapped in his carseat for 8 hours, It was late fall here, and we had been having an uncommonly cool week, which definitely saved the baby. When the ambulance pulled away, the police would not allow the parents in the back...dad was kneeling on the ground crying his eyes out.
Those backward seats for the littlest ones is why you install a mirror over the back seat -- that way you can see their face when you look in your rear-view mirror.
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?