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One arrested after baby dies in hot car in S. Wichita
KWCH ^ | July 25, 2014 | Angela Smith

Posted on 07/25/2014 1:27:49 PM PDT by eccentric

Wichita police say a 10-month-old baby was left alone in a hot car for two to two and a half hours Thursday afternoon. The girl was found dead at around 6:40 pm in the 1500 block of S. Topeka.

Police say the girl's 29-year-old foster father picked her up from a babysitter at around 4:00 in the afternoon. They returned to the home along with a five-year-old child. Police say, somehow, the child was left behind in the car as the 29-year-old and the 5-year-old went inside.

The foster father's partner, a 26-year-old man who is also a foster parent, was in the backyard when they came home and didn't realize the young girl was not inside.

Police say the two were watching TV when they realized the girl was not in the house. They found the girl unresponsive, brought her inside and called 911.

Emergency crews were dispatched to the home and pronounced the girl dead.

Police took both men in for questioning, then arrested the 29-year-old on one count of Aggravated Child Endangerment. Police expect to present their case to the District Attorney's Office next week.

Police say the girl has lived with the foster parents since last fall, and they were in the process of adopting her. They adopted five and seven year old children. Those two were taken into police protective custody.

Three other foster children live in the home, they are staying with other family members.

Police do not know how hot it was in the car when the girl was found.

Police are tracking down family members before releasing any names.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: baby; death; gay; gayguyparants; hotcar
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To: mware

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-technology-could-help-prevent-kids-deaths-in-hot-cars/


41 posted on 07/25/2014 2:02:15 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: truth_seeker

http://www.ggweather.com/heat/

(Don’t know anything about this source - just googled it)


42 posted on 07/25/2014 2:06:44 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yes.


43 posted on 07/25/2014 2:08:14 PM PDT by Andy'smom (How many more acts of love can we take?)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Unintentional?

If parents continue to be off the hook for everything that will murder this society more definitively than Obama and the stupid congress and the invaders together. And more quickly

I am sick to distraction over parents who will NOT DO their jobs


44 posted on 07/25/2014 2:09:26 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

Gays want to have kids for conversation pieces rather than to be real parents. It’s their way of flaunting convention.


45 posted on 07/25/2014 2:11:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Jim from C-Town

There but for the Grace of God go I.


46 posted on 07/25/2014 2:11:13 PM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: dfwgator

“Gays want to have kids for conversation pieces rather than to be real parents. “

So do an awful lot of other people.

Parents aer not doing their jobs.


47 posted on 07/25/2014 2:14:05 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

Please, We let over a million people off the hook for the deliberate murder of pre-born children every year. They are intentionally killing their own kids.

When a child is left in a car it is 99.9999999999999% of the time accidental. Accidents happen.

You can not legislate against this sort of thing. Best approach is to say a prayer for the child and parent and move on. Punishing offenders will not prevent the next child being killed in this manner.

Distraction is exactly what causes this sort of incident.


48 posted on 07/25/2014 2:16:46 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: eccentric

Totally on purpose. Every single time. Car seats are big and impossible to ignore as one is driving.

Time to start prosecuting these parents. Do that and these killers will have to think of other ways to kill their children.


49 posted on 07/25/2014 2:17:23 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Jim from C-Town

I have never forgotten my children were in the car. I have never forgotten my dog was in my car. Some things you make a point not to forget.


50 posted on 07/25/2014 2:22:52 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: truth_seeker
Well, yes I can!

The actual amount is around 35 according to kidsincars.com. They are a group who is involved in lobbying the government for ‘funding’ and ‘research’ so I find them to be a bit suspect. According to Law enforcement there are around 10 - 20 of these incidents yearly.

http://www.kidsandcars.org/heatstroke.html#Fact Sheet

For the past ten years it has been pretty constant according to both sets of numbers.

Regardless, they are very rare when you see a population of 310 million.

People die in horrible unintentional accidents all the time. We can not legislate against every variable in society. We already have too many laws and too many bureaucrats all up in our business. The ‘Though ought to be a law” and the ‘Something has to be done crowd’ have created more problems than they could ever begin to solve.

51 posted on 07/25/2014 2:26:20 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: lee martell
Where did you find this book? Was it a school assignment?

No, it wasn't a school assignment. I hope they don't have such books on a mandatory reading list today. [Though with this crew at the helm you never know.] I do not recall how I came across this book. But I was ready to graduate from the university by 1984, so my psyche could not be severely damaged - not after the course in electrodynamics :-) As matter of fact, some of Kafka's stories (like The Metamorphosis or In the Penal Colony) were far more disturbing; perhaps because I read them earlier.

52 posted on 07/25/2014 2:27:46 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: Jim from C-Town

I commend you for following up. I accept your statistics.

I did not ask for laws. I guess we aren’t as stupid as some people (me included) have thought us to be.

Hooray for us !!


53 posted on 07/25/2014 2:31:22 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: dfwgator

‘I’m sorry but there is NO WAY I would overlook something like that.’

Everyone says that until they actually do.


54 posted on 07/25/2014 2:32:37 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I am sure that everyone this happens to says the same thing until it actually happens.


55 posted on 07/25/2014 2:35:46 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

After a few minutes in the house, I’d notice.

When I would wake up from a nap or some other event and noticed there was silence, my kid’s location would instantly be queried.


56 posted on 07/25/2014 2:36:05 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Jim from C-Town
I am sure that everyone this happens to says the same thing until it actually happens.

And what is that, like .0000001% of the population?

57 posted on 07/25/2014 2:40:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Do they mean the foster father has a homosexual partner???

You forgot to add, NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT. And, of course, you should have added that this situation could have nothing whatsoever to do with the gentleman's attitude toward the child he allowed to bake in his hot car. Nothing. No possibility even.

58 posted on 07/25/2014 2:42:20 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: animal172

These are after the fact abortions


59 posted on 07/25/2014 2:51:30 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Bogey78O

What if your two year old got into the parked car and shut himself in, unable to get out while you are napping? The incidents of that happening are around half of the causes of the 35 incidents a year.

What if your toddler fell into a bucket you where using to mop the floor. Way more kids drown in buckets every year than in hot cars. Almost as many die falling into the toilet.

Should all these people be treated as criminals. They all showed a form of negligence. Why should they not suffer more punishment than the average person who loses a child.

http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/News-Releases/2002/CPSC-Warns-Pools-Are-Not-the-Only-Drowning-Danger-at-Home-for-KidsData-Show-Other-Hazards-Cause-More-than-100-Residential-Child-Drowning-Deaths-Annually/


60 posted on 07/25/2014 2:52:56 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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