Posted on 08/04/2005 7:05:52 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
The death of a 1-year-old boy is prompting a local day care to change its policy. Madison's Place Daycare will now call every parent if a child is not dropped off by 10 a.m. The change comes immediately after a Lubbock mother forgot to drop her toddler off at day-care. By the time she remembered, he was dead.
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Your nephew is lucky. He also needs to focus more.
Its time for a tough love law...The law states,you leave a baby in the car and it dies,you go to prison for manslaughter...At least a year..Bet you the baby deaths in the hot cars would slow to a crawl...
Negligence at best. Throwing the mother in prison is not going to 'punish' her any more than the thought of having killed her own child will. It also will not serve as a deterrent. The crime here is that she forgot.
There were several attempted kidnappings at the school bus stops here and that is why the policy ws put in place. I agree with the policy.
The alternative is dead babies, in both cases.
I agree with the policy too. But no legal liability.
I have no objection to BABY SAFE drop off points.
NY has PETA lunatics influencing the writing of law.
The death of any human should be investigated.
But there is such a thing as an accident, where no one is actually at fault.
Forgetting is not a crime. It is human error.
If a horrible death and loss of one's child is not enough to slow these incidents... why on earth would a year in jail make people more responsible?
I'm agreeing with the people who are saying that putting car seats in the back seat, turned around, needs to be addressed. And I agree that a car seat in the front would go even further to stem the flow.
Precisely. Some people would like to make that a crime. We have all gotten wrapped up in our thoughts and done dangerous things 99.9% there is no harm. But the .1% when harm is done, it's usually great harm, as in this case. We have all driven in a preoccupied state and reached our destination almost by divine providence. I'm not casting stones at this poor mother.
In a perfect world parents would be responsible, until then we as a society must do all we can to protect life.
Sorry but I don't think the daycare should be babysitting parents by calling them to make sure they haven't killed their kids every day.
Kids shouldn't be in daycare anyway. They should be home with one of their parents instead of these disgusting germ mills.
Speaking of a perfect world, eh?
Just because it doesn't happen, doesn't mean we can't hope for a perfect world!
My heart goes out to this mother.
She will never recover from this.
I can't blame her: how many of us have never had one of those heart-stopping moments of realization that we'd forgotten to do something important and that it was too late to rememdy it?
I'm far from perfect and am just thankful that none of my "OMG, I forgot...!" moments cost the life of one of my children.
If the school makes a policy decision and the parents understand the reason for that policy I see no harm in that.
If a parent object, they can opt out in writing.
Prosecute some of these parents to the fullest extent of the law and somehow I think other parents' memories will improve.
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