Posted on Jul 5, 2017
Police: Baby left in van for 8 hours after church dies
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What do you think when you hear or read these stories? How possible is it that no one missed a 7 week old infant for eight hours?
Police: Baby left in van for 8 hours after church dies
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I cannot accept that anyone would "forget" a child like for minutes much less hours. I raised three of them. If one was missing for a minute I would know it as the peace and quiet would have been deafening. I think these stories of forgetfulness are simply ways of trying to explain away criminal neglect and manslaughter/murder charges. Getting out of a car and leaving a child you had just recently put into the car seat, perhaps carried to the car and saw in the rear view mirror many times is just not credible. We simply need to punish the outcome and not consider the explanation. There is no way to prove or disprove they "forgot".
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff
Right? My daughter is now three - never have I forgotten her. Even when I was with my ex husband no one forgot her in the car. I don't recall my parents leaving any of me or my four other siblings in the car and certainly not for hours (obviously).
Notice how it's rarely reported these things happening in the winter. I found one story but I can't remember where it was. It was actually 50 degrees out and the parent left the heat on and the kid died of hypothermia.
But every summer no fail, dozens up on dozens of these stories and I just don't get it. I had a loaner car a month ago. A Malibu. They are putting alarms in the car to remind people that there's a car seat in the back. Every time I got out after I put the car seat in and my daughter was in it "ding ding ding check the back seat." Um no crap. I know my kid is there. Thanks car.
In this case a family friend drove the van and "didn't know" the mom had put a rear facing seat in the van with a baby in it. Vans are big but you would notice a car seat that's not usually there - and ALL infant car seats are rear facing.
Notice how it's rarely reported these things happening in the winter. I found one story but I can't remember where it was. It was actually 50 degrees out and the parent left the heat on and the kid died of hypothermia.
But every summer no fail, dozens up on dozens of these stories and I just don't get it. I had a loaner car a month ago. A Malibu. They are putting alarms in the car to remind people that there's a car seat in the back. Every time I got out after I put the car seat in and my daughter was in it "ding ding ding check the back seat." Um no crap. I know my kid is there. Thanks car.
In this case a family friend drove the van and "didn't know" the mom had put a rear facing seat in the van with a baby in it. Vans are big but you would notice a car seat that's not usually there - and ALL infant car seats are rear facing.
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I never heard of a church dying before. Is it because some idiot left a baby in a van for eight hours? Sorry, but I've watched enough tragedy for a lifetime. I look for humor to avoid dealing with any more.
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