Neither can I, that is ridiculous and sad.
I swear people like that must be drunk or drugged.
Let's put the mother in a mini van all day and forget about it....
"I know people who have gotten to work and realized they forgot to drop off their kids and had to go back."
She must have a clientele of complete morons. Sad.
If you can remember to put the kid in the van it sort of assumes that you would remember to go to the damn day care.
Horrible.
I am not a father (hope to be someday), but isn't your baby kinda the center of your universe. How could you forget such a thing?
This is becoming ridiculously frequent. I predict automakers will have to get together with infant car seat makers to come up with some kind of alarm system.
This is one of many reasons that moms should stay home at least until the kids are old enough to go to school (if at all possible).
I have three children, ( all adults now ).
We never managed to forget them in a van or anywhere else. What did we do wrong? /s
This same thing happened in Lubbock last year, the lady got off with no charges pressed against her. I suppose she will live with such tragic event the rest of her life, but the poor child had no choice.
This isn't negligent homicide?.........
This happened in our area several years ago. The lady was considered a very good mother and she was not a moron. Before she dropped the child off she had to run an errand that wasn't part of her normal routine. The baby fell asleep and was behind her seat. Of course it destroyed mer marriage and her life.
Folks can call the woman in this story names all day long, but she'll beat herself up more than we can. I can't imagine the hell the rest of her life will be.
I predict that a few years from now we will be hearing about seniors found dead in car because their child forgot to drop them off at the old age center.
What goes around comes around.
I can imagine how you do it. We don't pay enough attention to the important job of raising our children. This child was being dropped off so the woman could go to work -- she probably had work on her mind.
Without passing judgment, I can safely say that, before we started setting up day care all over so people could drop their kids off and go to work instead of raising them, we had a lot fewer children dying because they were forgotten about.
Most of the cases where children are left alone in a car, it is because there has been such a division of labor in who is responsible for the child that everybody thinks someone else has the kid.
If the mother was the full-time caregiver, she never would have thought someone else was watching her kid.
We had a father in our town convicted for leaving a kid in the car, he had lots of kids and different kids took care of the little ones and one day every one got out of the car and each thought someone else had gotten the kid.
The judge rightly ruled that the father was responsible for making sure his child was cared for.
I hope a judge makes the same ruling here.
Me either. I have to say, before I had kids, and still now that they are almost out of the house- I always check my car getting in and out. Being distracted or forgetful/oblivious isn't a crime, but when you have a baby you cannot afford to be so unobservant.
Unbelievable. Words escape me!
Some people shouldn't breed.Bet she remembered everything on her schedule at work.
Probably, with a 5 month old baby at home, you don't sleep a lot. It has happened to me once taking the way to the office and then having to come back to the baby sitter's house to drop off the kid. It happens. I think a good idea is to put the kid's seat in the middle seat. That way you see him every time you check the rear mirror. That saved me that time.
Years ago, when mine was still a toddler, I dropped my wife off at the clothing store in a strip mall, while I dashed over to Borders Books. After 10 mins of browsing, I realized my little one was still in the back seat. I truly can't describe the panic that hit me at that moment. It was summertime here in VA, but, it was only 10 mins and the car was in the shade. No harm done. HOW DID IT HAPPEN? 1. I NEVER took her in the car like that by myeself; the wife was always the one who would take her around, like it is in most families I supsect. 2. She was sound asleep, so in the time it took me to go from point a to point b she never made a peep.