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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Last time I heard at least 80% of people were aware of what caused children. having a child is a conscious decision. One that should not be made if you can't afford it. I blame the government both ways. One they tax the hardworking too much and Two they pay the indolent indigent to have kids with the money from the hard working.
Case by case, huh? Let’s see if they treat this woman the same as they treated the principal who left her child to bake in the car the other month.
I can’t understand this, myself. Uneven priorities, I agree. Uneven to say the least.
That’s a fantastic point. That irritates me too.
Kiddie kennels were not the norm back then.
I know...I know. I have done it myself. But it just hit me pretty hard this morning when I read it...
Sorry. Just because she might be dumb, overworked, overstressed, inconsiderate, self-centered, air-headed or whatever, we have not yet got to the point that we require a means, suitability or intelligence test to become a parent.
But for you to call this person, someone you never met, basing your judgement on the level of detail in the story and calling her a “monster” makes you more deserving of the title than she is.
Where the hell do YOU get off making that judgement?
I know you didn’t call her evil...I was just using it as a reference point. Sorry to come across that way, because I sure didn’t mean to.
It's tragic, the baby is gone, and the mother is in hell for the rest of her life. I don't feel the need to pile on.
Adding to what you said, I’ll bet the kid was properly in a backseat child seat.
Just another death from airbags.
I didn’t need a seat belt. If anything happened my dad would put his arm across the seat and hold me back.
What the hell is wrong with Fox, putting up a picture of a bunch of unrelated Hooters chicks in Vegas to go with this story?
There's some geek over there just dying to put up the boobie Hooter photo, and didn't bother to even think about the context.
Well put.
I know of cases in the medical field where a physician missed a diagnosis. Simple things...too distracted...was up late working an emergency case, personal problems, whatever. But when they sat down to work, all that stuff came together, they missed something because they are human beings (by our nature,imperfect) and a patient suffered or died.
The physician is often painted as an incompetent, uncaring, uneducated, scheming, bungling, indifferent, arrogant, self-centered, poor excuse for a physician. Sometimes this illustration is done by the lawyers, sometimes by an angry patient, and sometimes even by the media.
But most of the time the physician is just an average person, a decent person trying to get through life and do the right things on the way.
And they are tripped up by having the phone ring at the wrong time as they began to look at an xray, or a nurse with a question about another patient in the ICU as they prepared to stitch up after an operation.
And you know, there are plenty of people in life we can be judgemental about, who are deserving of it. I just don’t think this is one of them.
Ever forget your laptop at home? Ever forget your wallet after you have shopped a full shopping cart?
I can easily see this happening when people get tired or distracted.
Guys like Bill Gates have turned the water on to draw a bath and flooded their bathrooms - he’s famous for stories like that.
It’s tragic.
This woman has a sentence of feeling immense guilt, remorse, self-hatred, and depression for the rest of her life. This all before she even spoke to a police officer. She will suffer terribly for the rest of her life for her moments of inattention.
Nothing any judge or jury could hand out could come close.
They reported that the car had tinted windows and no one could see in.
Happened in St. Louis to a pediatrican and her medical researcher husband.
Couuldn’t agree more with your analysis of the tragedy.
I agree. I think the nanny-staters have much responsibility for the rise in these types of deaths.
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