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Originally Posted by DrumNFeather
I was perusing the Deseret News this morning, and noticed this story:
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700243158,00.html
Looks like the mom who left her infant in the car will get 18 months of probation and no jail time.
I am always interested to know what could've possibly gone through her mind when she was taking in groceries, or focusing on her MLM job (I believe that is what kind of job she had) to the point that she just completely forgot her child.
Maybe it is because I am a new parent...but I feel like I've got at least one ear listening for my daughter no matter what I am doing.
We also had a situation out here in Virginia last week where a guy forgot to take his son to daycare and left him in the car for 7 hours.
I just don't get it.
The comments after the article are interesting...particularly the "judge not" part. Anyways, interesting, and incredibly sad stuff. |
Yup, it's bc you're a new parent.
I know very few of the details of the case, but as I find that the longer I live, the less judgmental I get about things people do. Example one: I remember a time when I thought anyone who had a kid over two who wasn't toilet-trained was guilty of something akin to child abuse--then had two kids who were stubborn as hell and were 3 1/2 and 4 before they'd even think about using the toilet. Example two: My wife is the most conscientious mother I know--by both my account and anyone who knows her. We were moving into a new house and in the midst of making a bunch of Home Depot runs, my wife ended up leaving our baby in the car while she ran in. She guesses she was in for about an hour, in July, in the midwest, where things tend to get really hot and humid. By some unbelievable stroke of luck, it happened to be a cool overcast day and our child stayed asleep. She still has nightmare flashbacks about that day, and how close she was to being one of these headlines. Like you, we could not have imagined how it would be possible to leave a child in a hot car like that--until she did it.
So I'm really careful about making judgments about things people do. It's almost like God sits up in heaven and waits to find ways to teach us the all-important concept "There but for the grace of God go I."