I wonder if she was driving and chatting on her cellphone, disconnected with traffic as well as everything else. And then she ended up at work as she continued to babble to her friend?
I wonder if anybody else has thought of this? They need to check her cell phone records.
I’m sure that she did forget that her child was in the car and that she did not intend the leave him. But that doesn’t excuse her. She was still negligent. I can’t begin to say what kind of punishment would be just. Perhaps the loss of her child is sufficient punishment in itself.
But we are certainly witnessing an increase in these kinds of incidents where babies die after being left in cars for several hours while their parents are at work. These are the direct consequence of having young mothers in the work force. This kind of thing didn’t happen 30 or 40 years ago when mothers stayed home with their children. Now it does. As long as our society encourages the mothers of young children to work outside the home, it will have to accept the fact that a few of these mothers will be too busy or distracted to remember where their children are.