A little harsh don't you think? She'll be paying for her absentmindedness the rest of her life. Society won't be served by locking her up.
If you ask me, this is just another unintended consequence of federally mandated airbags which force parents to place their children in the back seat where they are more easily forgotten. If the child was sitting next to her in the front seat, it would be unlikely she would have forgotten him.
I think it is easy to forget you have children/ are a parent if someone else parents them all day long, every day of their little lives. You are then just the transporter and gene donor.
"...If you ask me, this is just another unintended consequence of federally mandated airbags which force parents to place their children in the back seat where they are more easily forgotten..."
Yes, this is just one more reason why not to have federally mandated nanny-state air bags.
Yes, much too harsh. I want to put my two cents in that there is much too much of a burden placed on young mothers who are forced back to work in order to survive. They are doing what women normally do, run the home, pay the bills, raise the kids, and then they are forced to cope with job responsibilities. Much too much stress. You can say, well, live more simply, but with our tax structure, it is very expensive to live today. My folks faced a 13-14% tax burden as a young couple with four young children. With average taxes, and the hidden taxes added in, the average burden today probably 40%. And I am talking things like phone, gas, booze, and so on added on top of property, income, state taxes. So, I have pity on this poor woman. I know how distressing and distracting stress can be!
V's wife.
You just have to be a liberal defense lawyer or a work-Mommy.
This is another case of Mommy taking a job from a man (or a single woman) who could have supported his/her family with it. Worker-Mommy simultaneously depresses wages, dumps 40% to %80 back into the day care payments (inflating prices) and causes real estate taxes to go thru the roof as the public schools deal with the neglected, kennelled children.
The is the Sovietization of American society proceeds apace. The Soviets were always very proud of how their womyn worked, I visited schools in Leningrad that ran from 8 am to 5 pm...this is where we are headed.
Add to that, darkened windows. . .where you cannot even see inside a car. . (babies facing backwards; so you do not even see them in the mirror unless you have a 'reverse'. . .) and add stress and 'it is not your 'routine' ; maybe add under-the-influence of anti-drugs for all occasions. . .then a little easier to move to some kind of understanding in some of these scenarios.
However; she did not 'just' forget her child. . .she seems to have forgotten the whole routine of getting him to his daycare.
And beyond the mundane. . .there are too often 'other' motivations. . .
"more easily forgotten". It happens too often. Why have children when your priorities are work and time is limited. We both work and always double checked status of kids. We were lucky daycare/schools called to see if they were coming in. If you are rushed, then make a list, with kid's needs at the top, middle and bottom. With the large number of incidents made public, I can't believe parents don't start checking backseats before they exit car. Poor child.
This is beyond idiocy. Who can forget a one year old in the back seat? ridiculous.
Umm. Hello. A child died because it was put into a car and forgotten. And it broiled to death in its own juices.
And the excuse is that the kid was in the back seat and she just simply forgot? What the hell else does she forget?
And she'll pay for it with her conscience for the rest of her life? Nice. Maybe if I unintentionally kill someone due to my carelessness I could convince the judge that really, I didn't mean to run down that pedestrian. It's just that I forgot to look in the rear view mirror when I was backing up or else I forgot which one was the accelerator and which one was the brake.
We apparently have an epidemic of people forgetting their kids in their cars and roasting them like a joint of beef. What excuses can be made for them?
However if the kid was kidnapped.????? Endangerment.
Quote: A little harsh don't you think? She'll be paying for her absentmindedness the rest of her life
No it's not harsh. Notice the rash of these happening over the last several years. Does the Susan Smith case come to mind (drowned her kids)?
Leaving your lunch box at home is absentmindist. Leaving a baby to die in a car is criminal.
>If you ask me, this is just another unintended consequence of >children in the back seat where they are more easily >forgotten. If the child was sitting next to her in the front >seat, it would be unlikely she would have forgotten him.
AIRBAGS? You've got to be kidding me.
That's as wrong as saying "the real problem was a lack of birth control. That would have prevented the child from being there in the first place."
Get real.
Sorry, it doesn't fly.
This was done on purpose. Convenient way to solve a "problem". Think of it as a 6th trimester abortion. All the talk of tired parents and back seat bullcrap is just that. Period. No excuses.
And IF by some bizarre stretch of the imagination this woman did do it "accidentally", then she needs to be removed from society to protect the rest of us from more of her "accidents". There is no telling what damage she could do in a car.
Her "absentmindedness" is manslaughter. She should not be permitted to have another child.
Twenty bucks to a dollar she never forgets to take her groceries out of the back seat after a shopping trip, just her child.