In Dallas today, a mom brought her three kids home from a water park and forgot the 14 mo old in the car. The

Question

baby was in the car for over an hour and it was 105 degrees. Please tell me how a parent can forget their child???!

Answer 1

Please tell me the baby is ok?

Answer 2

People for some reason discount the murders of babies because they don't have a voice. It's just like abortion. The kid cant tell you it wants to live so anything the mother says usually gains sympathy.

She could forget her kid in the car for an hour and cry then people would sympathize with her. My god, I used to buy crickets for my frogs and I would stick the bag near the window on the way home so nothing would happen. This woman gains sympathy for leaving a baby in the car??

It's time for these idiots to get charged for murder like they really deserve. If she had locked an eight-year-old in the car no one would be giving her ******* sympathy. There are no such thing as "accidents" only stupid people.

Answer 3

I saw that on the news tonight. It was horrible! All these poor kids are being forgotten and left in 140 degree cars just because people are in such a hurry! How you can forget your OWN child is BEYOND me.

Answer 4

That's disgusting! I am 13 and the oldest of 7 kids. My mom has NEVER forgotten 1 of us in the car. How sad the baby died. Those kids should be put into foster care or something. Or mom needs to get major parenting lessons. Something needs to be done!

Answer 5

now I have left my sleeping child locked in a car for a few minutes to run in to a building to drop off something, but in the winter I keep the heater running and in the summer I leave the windows part way down. I have NEVER left him for more than like 3 minutes if I cannot physiclly see him. On the 4th of july he fell asleep as we got to the park...I left him in his carseat, but looked over at the van constantly and physically checked on him like every 5 minutes until he woke up and I could take him out.

I cannot believe that one of the older kids did not think to ask where the baby was. Even my self-absorbed older kids will look around and ask where my 2 year old is when we come home from somewhere and they don't see him.

these cases break my heart. I cannot imagine leaving my son in the car for more than a minute or 2 alone. I generally pull him out first THEN bring in all my other things.

Answer 6

Reading this makes my stomach turn. It makes me physically ill. I have an 18 month old daughter and Im 20 years old and there is no freaking reason to ever leave a child that young alone any where much less in a car. How the heck do you "forget" a child. I hope she rots in jail and then in h**l.

Answer 7

my personal opinion , she was high or drunk !!!  i do not know of a sober person who would leave a baby / child in a car !!!  she needs to be fixed, and never allowed to procreate again !!  the other 2 kids...they should be  checked on by cps EVERY WEEK !!

Answer 8

Oh my, that is horrible.  Very tragic.  It is hard to imagine being that forgetful, but it happens a lot.  I try to reserve judgement for the parents, as I am sure they are going to have difficulty dealing with the consequences of their actions for the rest of their lives.  I also believe that CPS would remove the remaining children, and that child abuse charges will be filed against the parents.  I can't imagine that they would not go to jail.

As you have more kids, your mind does work differently.  I can't imagine doing this, but I have seen reports that since the baby is turned backwards in the car that it is happening more now.  I have lost a child in public and he is autistic and that alone makes you feel totally incompetent. =(

I disagree, that it is not like sids, this is totally preventable and only occured from the parents negligence.  I agree it doesn't mean that the parent is abusive, or bad, but did have a lapse in judgement resulting in the highest cost possible.

I do know of a friend who had a young sibling die from drowning in the backyard pool.  It really messed up the whole family.

Answer 9

That mother is awlful! I never would forget my kids, she needs to have CPS take her kids away because next time she "forgets" her baby might die!

Oh shoot, the baby is ok right?

Answer 10

Bull.  She didn't forget the baby in the car - she left him there on purpose.  She probably figured she'd bring the other kids in, have a fun time at the park without having to worry about looking after the baby, and she'd have a grand time.  There's no way anyone competent enough to tie her own shoes could suddenly say, "Oops, I left the baby in the car an hour ago!"  I say lock her in a car on a hot day and let her fry.  I'm with you on this one - I'm p*ssed over this story.

Answer 11

oh that's very sad.  it happened in aussie this last summer too, the parents changed cars to go and pick up their other child and forgot to put the baby in the car.  poor thing died too.

It does happen (getting distracted and forgetting) more often than we think - but we only hear about it when there are devastating consequences.

I know my parents forgot about me when i was about 6 yrs old, they sent me into the shop to by some tissues and then forgot and drove away without me.....they came back 5 mins later, needles to say i was pretty upset.   Different from forgetting an infant, i know - but still forgetting. -

I guess i'm trying to say that it can happen even to the best parents.

Answer 12

I hate to hear about that, as a parent there is not one time I did not now where my children were. I know she will use the excuse it was just and accident. But a baby for god sake's how do you forget your baby. she is living in her own prison of self hatred right now. she will never live a day without remembering that she killed her child. it is sad.

Answer 13

That is just awful! I have no idea how a mother could "accidental forget" her about her own child. Even when I don't have my children with me, I still look constantly look in the back seat out of habit!

This story, and others like it, make me sick!

Answer 14

I live in carrollton.

I saw that on the news.

What an idiot.

Answer 15

It was an accident and the mother`s remorse will be punishment enough. We had a case like that here in Iowa where a woman drove to work forgetting she had her baby in the car because usually the dad dropped baby off at daycare and she was distracted. She came out at the end of the workday and found her baby there in the car dead from the heat.

There were never any charges.

It happens very rarely -- that is why it makes national news. It is sad but there is nothing anyone can really do about it.

A ``forgotten baby in the heat``awareness day won`t cut it because everyone thinks they would NEVER forget about their baby.

Some kind of alarm that detects weight or something when a baby is left in a parked car for x amount of time won`t work because what if it is a perfectly lukewarm day where the car is neither going to get too hot nor too cold and you pull over in a park so baby can nap and you can read a book?  That would be really annoying if the alarm went off and woke the baby.

So...locking up the mother is very unfairly punishing the other children. They should lose their mom after already losing a baby sibling? Yeah. That`s fair.

Like I said -- it is a sad situation but it is like SIDS and  so many other things--there is no good reason for it.

Answer 16

Yeah, this is kind of messed up...

I cant see forgetting either one of my kids in the car.  Would you leave your paychek on the counter at the deli?  I didnt think so.. People re so careless with children that it's a shame.  

I remember my parents telling me to never leave my child with someone i wouldn't leave my pocketbook with,and vice versa.

Answer 17

My insides s***w up in thought of that mother. If she forgot the baby in  the car, that means she doesn't really care about her children. But the remorse, melancholy, anger, and depression she's going to suffer because she killed her own child is going to be a worthy punishment.

Answer 18

How do you "forgot" your own children? That is horrible and those other children should be taken away, lest she "forgets" them too. How terrible! She needs severe punishment. Yeah, accidents happen, but they should never happen at the life of one of your own children, who depend on you for survival. She should at least get neglect.

She was at a water park? That shows some intention. Not to kill the baby, but that she would be in there for awhile, because who comes in and out of a water park in ten minutes?