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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. |
I have sympathy because we nearly avoided a tragedy. We had come home from a long outing on a summer afternoon tired and exhausted. Three kids in the car. We get them out, we all lie down to take naps in beds. I'm about to fall asleep when I ask my wife if she brought in the baby. "No I thought you did". We jump up and check and she's still in the car in her baby seat asleep.
Also another time, as newlyweds we nearly killed ourselves in the car. Pull in the garage on a cold winter night, start some nookie going, leave the car on to keep the heater running, yada yada yada, fall asleep in each other's arms, I wake up and realize the garage is filling up with CO and I can barely breathe. We run in the house laughing.