Posted on 03/13/2015 5:56:47 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
I just cannot see how someone could forget their child in the car.
We hear about these every year and I have yet to understand how someone can forget they have a kid in the car.
Where was mommy?
http://www.ggweather.com/heat/
...Total number of U.S. heatstroke deaths of children left in cars, 2014: 30
Total number of U.S. heatstroke deaths of children left in cars, 2013: 44...
For what reason? To teach him a lesson? Is this a guy we really need to get off of our streets and behind bars?
Sometimes an accident is an accident.
I cannot imagine the horror of this, even for the father who many are quick to vilify. My gut tells me this was an accident - a horrible tragedy that will haunt this man for the rest of his days.
never hear of children left in the car in the Fall or Winter but spring and summer all of a sudden parents forget.
Clever way to kill a child and get away with murder.
With a six month old an "accident: would be that the kid rolls his/her rolling seat to a basement door that was left open for a few seconds.This kid was left...ALONE and UNATTENDED...in a car for six hours during which time she,it would appear,got tangled up in the straps of her car seat.
No six hours being unattended...no dead child.
I'm not saying the guy should get the chair but he *was* grossly negligent and that negligence resulted in a *dead* child.
At least a year...maybe more.
I wonder if the father worked in a lower paying job at say Walmart, if he’d be behind bars right about now?
I read that the baby had just been given 3 shots....
It couldn’t possibly been a reaction to them, could it?
I had a daughter go into convulsions for four days from her “baby shots”.
If it was, we’ll never know.
Both the doctor who gave the shots and the hospital workers where she was taken lied their a—— off and said that it wasn’t the shots that caused the seizures.
A year in prison will cost this man his career. His home. His savings. It will bankrupt his family.
For what reason? Punishment?
Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed.
Have you ever seen a dead child? I have...thanks to 20+ years working in a big city ER.It's tough enough when it's,say,cancer.
You can't imagine how tough it is when it's something less "innocent".
My guess is that you'd be less forgiving if *your* six month old died because of an "accident" at a day care center which resulted in him/her having been left unattended for six hours.
Or am I wrong in that assumption?
Now if a parent had left the infant in the car to go into a bar to drink all afternoon, I could see serious charges being brought. But for a dad who probably was not used to taking the child in the morning, his greatest penalty will the grief he will suffer and tormented by for the rest of his life, knowing he failed briefly as a parent and killed his child accidentally and not by any legal penalty that could be meted out by the authorities.
I'm sure he did not intend to kill his child intentionally.
Normally, I am very harsh on parents who harm their children through negligent behavior. But in this case, it seems like a horrifically, tragic “brain fart” as opposed to any sort of willful negligence.
It is not like he intentionally left the baby in the car while he went to a ball game, a bar or a strip club. He apparently just forgot he had the child. Living the rest of his life with the consequences of that mistake seems like sufficient punishment to me.
I don’t think justice or society would be served by criminal charges.
There is absolutely no excuse, but that being said, what’s the point of sending him to prison?
I know if it were me, prison would be nothing compared to the internal torture he will have to endure for the rest of his life.
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