Yeah, let’s take a four-month-old baby to Lake Havasu in summer.
From what I understand, the temps that day reached over 120 degrees. That’s dangerous for adults, pets and even older children but infants are especially susceptible to heat stroke because they cannot sweat or regulate their body temperature like adults do and from what I read, small children have more body surface area than body mass, so they gain heat more quickly than adults. “If it’s hot outside, your baby will overheat before you will.”
When there are such extreme heat advisories, it’s often communicated that these conditions are dangerous to anyone but especially to small children and the elderly. But it shouldn’t take warnings to know this. I would think it would be common sense.
And being on a boat, the sun reflects off the water and can make it even hotter.
I’d be willing to give the parents a pass that it was a tragic mistake, an accidental death if not for the social media posts and pictures include of their dead infant immediately after their child’s death, and then the pleading for funds.
I wasn’t able to have children but if I had any, or even if one of my great nieces died like this, I don’t think the first thing I’d do, hours after their death would be to post pictures on Facebook and then immediately start a GoFundMe.
But we live in such times. Everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame or there Keeping Up with The Kardashians moment.
“Oh look at the pictures our beautiful baby, including death pictures, who died on our watch because we are stupid, neglectfully and self-absorbed people. And Please Send Us Money.”
Infants are unstable. Apparently, her parents were, too.
Anyone who does not know that instinctively also never spoke to their own parents.
Arrest them and bring it out in court.