Posted on 07/22/2005 3:08:56 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s
Infant Girl Left In Hot Car Dies
A baby was found dead inside a car Thursday after her father went to pick her up at her daycare and workers there told him she had never arrived, authorities said.
Gabriel Saavedra rushed out to his car at Storybook Nursery School and found his tiny daughter, Kayli, still strapped in her infant seat from that morning, police said.
Emergency workers said the girl, who would have been 5 months old on Saturday, was declared dead on the scene.
Don't tell me what I can and cannot say!!! Who do you think you are???
Of COURSE it's the father's fault..DUH!!! But if I ran a daycare, I would call and check why an infant wasn't in on a given day. It's only common sense.
If the baby was out because of a contagious illness, I would want to alert other parents.
You have a lot of nerve telling people what they can't say!!!
I never left a child in a car.
But when my third was a few weeks old, the whole family went out to eat. She was sleeping so we slid her under the table. Restaurant was dark. We left, got to the car, and realized we had left the baby. The waiter was running toward us yelling.
So it happens.
There was a similar incident in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago. A radio announcer read a poem by Shel Silverstein, changing ate to baked. The poem is meant to place the blame where it belongs, but it's kind of strange, considering that this is a book children's verses.
Dreadful"
by Shel Silverstein
in 'Where the Sidewalk Ends'
Someone baked the baby.
It's rather sad to say.
Someone baked the baby
So she won't be out to play.
We'll never hear her whiney cry
Or have to feel if she is dry.
We'll never hear her asking "Why?"
Someone baked the baby.
Someone baked the baby.
It's absolutely clear
Someone baked the baby
'Cause the baby isn't here.
We'll give away her toys and clothes.
We'll never have to wipe her nose.
Dad says, "That's the way it goes."
Someone baked the baby.
Someone baked the baby.
What a frightful thing to eat!
Someone baked the baby
Though she wasn't very sweet.
It was a heartless thing to do.
The policemen haven't got a clue.
I simply can't imagine who
Would go and (burp) bake the baby.
We get our pings if we leave the keys in the ignition or leave our headlights on. There has got to be some way to remind these people there is a baby in the back seat. This has happened way too often although once is to often IMHO. At least sit the diaper bag on the front seat to remind you. Bet it was in the back seat with the baby.
Thanks for not screaming at me in big, bold capital letters.
Ain't it the truth! I hate airbags. When I have a baby now, I won't go anywhere unless I have an older child along to sit next to the baby and wipe his mouth, give him his pacifier, or whatever. It stinks.
I agree with you 100%. Some people are absent minded. Putting a quiet baby in the rear seat means taking a chance. I'd rather unhook an airbag and take that chance if I had to use a child carseat. Once more, the intrusive government regulations force us not to make up our own minds!
you can always disable the airbags
I'm with you so far.
...where they can be easily forgotten.
What?!?
I hope you meant more easily.
Let me guess, cocktails were involved?! :)
At least she was out of sight, makes more sense.
Two children (separate incidents) died after being "forgotten" in Oklahoma last week also. Unbelievable.
I screamed because I screamed in my heart.
We have the original poem on a CD. It's actually kind of the way young children sometimes think about a new baby. I had one who kept trying to give his brother away: "Can we take Tom back to the hospital now? I've decided I don't like him." "Does Tom have to come when we move? I bet the new tenants would keep him!" "Do you think the air conditioner repairman would like to take Tom home?"
What a tragedy.
Right. I miss children riding shotgun. They learned alot that way. Plus you could whop 'em up side the head without getting into a wreck.
No cocktails, I was three weeks post partum, nursing and exhausted with three kids and feedings every three hours.
The older girls remember it with glee and never fail to remind the baby of the story. The baby is not amused even though she is nearly 30.
so,from the time he left home till he got to work,he NEVER LOOKED IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR!!!!!!!!!!!It would have been easy to see something in the back seat if your looking through the mirror....
Do you really believe that this is a "man thing"?
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