I see nothing wrong with day care. What I find upsetting is how how a mother "forgets" about a baby in the car. Funny how this always happens in the summer.
Probably they just don't die in the other seasons.
"Monster" is unkind and inappropriate. If this was an accident, the woman is probably already suffering enough from her own guilty conscience. If, on the other hand, this was pre-meditated, then "sick" is a more apt description.
Or is it that you only hear about it in the summer when the end results are tragic?
I've wondered if there is a seasonal component to this.
People stay up later and do more stuff in the summer months, so they are more tired, busier and distracted. I think lack of sleep and overscheduling plays a huge part in this type of tragedy.
I forgot my youngest child on the kitchen table once when she was an infant. We had come home late at night and I had taken her in her carrier out first and set it on the table, then went back to carry in her sleeping sibs and put them in bed.
I woke up for her 4 a.m. nursing and found her still sleeping soundly in her car seat on the table.
It was in the summer, too.
"Funny how this always happens in the summer."
It happens all the time. The babies die in the summer, so that story makes it news worthy. Not news if it is cool and the baby lives.
I really want to see a comparison chart of the annual number of these cases before and after laws requiring children to ride in the back seat went into effect. I don't seem to recall hearing these stories back in the good old days, when a lone child riding with a parent was always in the seat next to the parent. Sure there were occasional "don't give a sh!t" cases where some total lowlife parent knowingly left an infant or toddler in a hot car while going off to do something stupid. But responsible working parents? I don't think so. Obviously the dark-tinted window craze isn't helping either, but I think the nanny-state back-seat-only laws are a much bigger factor.