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Infant Girl Left In Hot Car Dies (the father forgot she was in the car?)
The Lakeland Ledger ^ | July 22, 2005 | Staff

Posted on 07/22/2005 3:08:56 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s

Infant Girl Left In Hot Car Dies

A baby was found dead inside a car Thursday after her father went to pick her up at her daycare and workers there told him she had never arrived, authorities said.

Gabriel Saavedra rushed out to his car at Storybook Nursery School and found his tiny daughter, Kayli, still strapped in her infant seat from that morning, police said.

Emergency workers said the girl, who would have been 5 months old on Saturday, was declared dead on the scene.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cars; death; kids; more2thestory; somethingisfishy; veryveryodd
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Does anyone interpret this as I do? I read it to say that he drove to work or whatever and forgetting to drop her off, just left her in the car all day.

Then the day care people said hey, there she is in the car?

1 posted on 07/22/2005 3:08:57 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I didn't glean the same interpretation you did. Dad made an unforgivable mistake.


2 posted on 07/22/2005 3:12:31 PM PDT by swmobuffalo (the only good terrorist is a dead one)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Close...I don't think they said anything to the Dad about the baby being in the car...

It's amazing how many times this story is told each summer.


3 posted on 07/22/2005 3:13:53 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Semper Fi ~)
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Does anyone interpret this as I do? I read it to say that he drove to work or whatever and forgetting to drop her off, just left her in the car all day.

Yes, that part I agree with your interpretation.

Then the day care people said hey, there she is in the car?

Not sure about that part. Sounds to me like once they told him she never arrived that morning the dumb ass realized that he had left her in the car all day which means he drove to work, parked, left her there for however many hours. Then, after work drove to day care to pick her up. The rest is, well, very sad!

4 posted on 07/22/2005 3:14:19 PM PDT by technomage
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To: ChildOfThe60s

No, i think the dad suddenly remembered not dropping her off when the daycare people said she was not there all day.


5 posted on 07/22/2005 3:14:24 PM PDT by Ludicrous
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I hate these stories. Terrible terrible terrible.


6 posted on 07/22/2005 3:16:02 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: HiJinx

Amazing.....several times last summer. Do these people ever forget the kid during the spring, winter or fall? Makes me ill....and mad!


7 posted on 07/22/2005 3:17:02 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: ChildOfThe60s
I interpreted it as another "airbag" death.

Airbags have made it unsafe to place infant car seats in the front, and consequently they are placed in the backseat, where they can be easily forgotten.

It would be almost impossible to "Forget" an infant, if it was in the seat next to you.

8 posted on 07/22/2005 3:17:30 PM PDT by joshhiggins
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To: ChildOfThe60s
This is not the first time this has happened and every time I have a problem that someone would forget what they did with the baby.

We put the tiny ones in the back seat to keep them safe and forget they are there. Wouldn't it be safer to have them in the front seat, so you don't forget them?

9 posted on 07/22/2005 3:17:34 PM PDT by Texas Mom
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Why didn't the daycare call the parents and ask where the baby was??? A daycare should have home and work numbers for both parents!!!!
11 posted on 07/22/2005 3:18:36 PM PDT by paulat
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Strapped her in the carseat, and his daughter never crossed his mind for the rest of the day. I wonder if he forgot to eat lunch, empty his bladder, and other mundane tasks that day too.

When will be the next time he forgets her little face in that carseat?

12 posted on 07/22/2005 3:18:49 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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First he forgot his daughter was in the car as he drove to work, got out, and went inside. Then he forgot his daughter was still in the car, dead and at "room temperature" for 8 hours or so, while he turned on the A/C to cool himself off and drove to her daycare???

WTF??

13 posted on 07/22/2005 3:19:35 PM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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How do you forget your child?

The most boneheaded I've ever been is when I closed the trunk on fingers...once and only once...but leaving the child strapped in the carseat?

No flippin' way.


14 posted on 07/22/2005 3:19:42 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Semper Fi ~)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

What kind of man (or woman, for that matter) would put a five-month-old in daycare?


15 posted on 07/22/2005 3:20:26 PM PDT by newsworthy (Culture is the engine of history.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Some people really should not be entrusted to have children.


16 posted on 07/22/2005 3:20:29 PM PDT by television is just wrong (http://hehttp://print.google.com/print/doc?articleidisblogs.blogspot.com/ (visit blogs, visit ads).)
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To: HiJinx

Apparently it happens a lot. I have two kids. Never forgot they were in the car with me. What the heck is wrong with people?


17 posted on 07/22/2005 3:21:28 PM PDT by television is just wrong (http://hehttp://print.google.com/print/doc?articleidisblogs.blogspot.com/ (visit blogs, visit ads).)
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To: Texas Mom

I don't know anyone who has ever forgotten they had a kid in the car. I just don't get this. How do you forget your child? Even in the back seat?


18 posted on 07/22/2005 3:21:49 PM PDT by pa mom
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To: ChildOfThe60s

You would think that with all technological advances of modern day, somebody would have come up with a device to recognize and warn a driver that an infant or child is in the vehicle. Not only that, a loud siren should be part of the warning signal so that anybody in the vicinity would also be warned. That baby must've been in a car seat and a car seat should be capable of being electronically connected to a warning signal that goes off as soon as a driver turns off the car or exits the car.

I'm not trying to excuse the driver in this instance, but this kind of tragedy happens too often.


19 posted on 07/22/2005 3:21:57 PM PDT by adorno (The democrats are the best recruiting tool the terrorists could ever have.)
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To: Texas Mom

Some smart person needs to come up with a carseat alarm. If there is a baby in the carseat, door opens, and an alarm goes off. Baby care for dummies.


20 posted on 07/22/2005 3:22:42 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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