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.
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.
I can’t say it.
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.
I'll tell you what. It's hard to sneak stuff by a journalist.
>>It’s unknown if the mother will face any charges in the child’s death. Tranter said situations like this are handled “on a case-by-case basis.”<<
Back in June, a local man was arrested and charged after leaving his DOG in the car.
These cases are treated “case-by-case”.
Uneven priorities, if you ask me.
Good Lord. That poor, poor kid. I don’t know how anyone could forget their kid, especially after taking that time to buckle them in those $#^&ing car seats.
Like one poster said, parents didn’t forget about us when we were jumping around in the back seats and making noise rather than being strapped in and sedated by DVD movies.
Where this woman was employed had no bearing on the fact that she was directly responsible for the death of the child.
If the parent would put their handbag/briefcase IN the back of the car, so they have to at least look in the back when they get out of the car, or more likely, open the rear door, this would not happen.
This is such a simple solution, I’m surprised it doesn’t get more press.
We didn't seem to hear about this back in the days of my youth, before child seats were in fashion. Heck, even lap belts weren't present in cars when I was very young. I have no idea how I was restrained, but I'm pretty certain that I was up front where Mom could keep an eye on me (and not forget that I was there).
I personally know someone (really a friend of a friend) who forgot a dog in their car. This person is on the whole, 99% of the time a fairly functional individual who works and has two kids. The other 1% of the time she’s struggled with depression, and lack of motivation. Not totally sure what my point is here :) - I guess only to say that people that are in this circumstance are probably not monsters - they’re more likely people that maybe in other circumstances we might call “spacey”. Maybe like the type of person who locks their keys in their car, or who leaves a burner going on a stove. I also think the points made already on this thread are good ones - the mandatory car seats in the back facing the rear, the increase in single parenting - are all factors at work here.
What is with these people? I never heard about this many cases of this before a few years ago.
She needs to do prison time. All of these “forgetful” “parents” should be in prison. I’ve no sympathy. I have a child this age and can’t grasp how anyone who isn’t blind, deaf and heavily sedated could “forget” one in the car.
I’ve forgotten my car keys. I’ve forgotten where I sat my glasses. I once forgot my wife’s birthday.
I’ve never forgotten my DOG in the CAR. And I have had dogs in my life for almost five decades now.
Where the woman works has nothing to do with this story, and the headline writer should be ashamed.Gee, thank God she wasn’t driving a SUV huh?
Legalized infanticide.