Posted on 10/31/2007 3:05:57 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
Toddler Dies After Hooters Mom Forgets Child in Hot Car
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
PHOENIX — A 17-month-old boy left unattended inside a hot car for at least seven hours in a north Phoenix Hooters restaurant parking lot was found dead Tuesday afternoon.
FOX 10 Phoenix reports the baby's mother had planned to drop the child off at childcare before heading to work at a restaurant near Bell Road and Interstate 17.
Instead, authorities say the mother went to work with the child still inside the car.
Police say the mother returned to her car after work and discovered the child. People in the parking lot at the restaurant ran to help when they heard the mother scream and a passerby called 911.
Firefighters were unable to revive the child and pronounced the boy dead at 5:15 p.m.
Police spokesman Sgt. Joel Tranter said, "(The boy's mother) was visibly upset. She forgot the child was in the car until she unlocked it."
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Poor little boy.
Prayers for his eternal rest.
Tragic. Mother was probably drunk, high, or both.
Those things are hooters, not brains.
How awful!
Rest in peace, little guy.
How do you figure that?
Ugh. Dreadful. May the little boy rest in peace.
Hard to believe that the child was in the car for seven hours without anyone noticing. Maybe a slow day at Hooters.
Don’t be so quick. This has happened to people who are simply frazzled from rushing around and ill equipped to deal with life sometimes.
What if she had been up until 4 AM, unable to sleep because she had worked double shifts, worrying about paying her bills and her sick father, unable to sleep.
What if the kid was sound asleep the entire time, didn’t make a noise, and she was on her final warning at work for being late because of her sick kid, whatever...
I just cannot believe that person in the article said she thought it was deliberate...just hideous. Until you know the circumstances (that the article doesn’t provide) you should refrain from being judgmental.
Doesn’t make her smart or a good parent, but doesn’t make her a evil murderer either.
I can’t say it.
I didn’t say she was evil, but I’m still betting she was more than just tired. Still, your point is well taken - I remember seeing an ‘Oprah’ last year where this happened and two parents were in the car; each one was supposed to have taken the child to day care and neither did.
These tragic stories happen much too regularly.
The parent forgets the child in the car while going to work. Did the same parent ever forget to go to work. Of course not. It shows our priorities.
when are daycare centers going to start calling parents when the little tykes don’t show up in the morning?
Sure, it will be a PITA, and most calls will result in the parent saying “Johnny has the snuffles”
But maybe a few calls will be made to a parent who went to work, forgetting to drop off the child, and they can snap out of their trance early enough before it gets too hot outside.
Are you kidding me???
What mother doesn't think about her child throughout the day.
It wouldn't even come into her mind that she hadn't dropped the child off?
Save the 'poor mother' routine, she is a monster.
He's gone, as they say, to a better place. Which in this case is almost certainly true.
The mother is guilty of child neglect at the very least. She is probably just a big busted airhead but that doesn’t excuse her actions here.
When are parents going to stop dropping kids off at the baby barn and take care of them? It isn't the responsibility of the baby farm to ensure that parents take care of their kids. IT is the PARENT'S RESPONSIBILITY.
In a country of 300,000,000 people bad stuff like this is going to happen from time to time. One of the worst cases of bad parenting I can remember is about 25 years some moronic woman was feeding a bear in Yellowstone and put honey on her 4 yo daughter's hands for the bear to lick off for a photo op. The bear bit off the kid's hands.
Hard to believe that the child was in the car for seven hours without anyone noticing.
Explained in the article.
Interesting point. I think that forty or fifty years ago
(a) no cars had air-conditioning so we left the windows open most of the time, even when the car was parked. We were less worried about car theft then.
(b) Very few mothers of small children worked and drove their children around to drop off somewhere.
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