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Toddler Alert

BoopOMatic — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:14:32 GMT

HERTZ CAR RENTAL EMPLOYEES FIND TODDLER LEFT IN RETURNED VEHICLE FOR 45 MINUTES

Employees at a car rental lot at Daytona Beach International Airport discovered a toddler who was left in the back seat of a returned vehicle for about 45 minutes Monday evening. The child was scared and hot, but thankfully in good health when checked by paramedics.

According to officials, the vehicle had been returned approximately 45 minutes earlier, at 5:13 p.m.

The child, just under the age of 2, was scared and hot, but otherwise in good health when checked by paramedics.

https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-car-rental-employees-find-toddler-left-in-returned-vehicle/

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Love my grandkids — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:19:07 GMT

@BoopOMatic That poor baby! And I'm betting the so-called "parent" has flown off. Whoever left that child in the car should be charged with child endangerment.

And I'm really sick of adults making excuses for this. Really sick of it. Yeah, this really steams me.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:23:42 GMT

@Love my grandkids Read the link. It was grandpa who did it. He's now off the family babysitting roster.

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manny2 — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:25:54 GMT

I don't understand how someone can leave a child in a car, and not realize it within 60 seconds. I' m being generous with the 60 seconds.

If you get in the car with your child, how can you leave a rental car, without your child. It does not make any logical sense to me at all.

Part of the reason is the addiction to cell phones. I see parents glued to their phones totally oblivious to their children.

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manny2 — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:28:07 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@Love my grandkids Read the link. It was grandpa who did it. He's now off the family babysitting roster.

I didn't read the link @Kachina624 He better be off babysitting detail. It still defies logic to me.

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Goodie2shoes — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:31:10 GMT

Absolutely NO excuse for leaving that poor baby in that car ! We all have things on our mind everyday, get this done and that done, go here and there do this and that but there has to be some accountability for leaving a innocent child in a car and just walk away. I haven't read the article as to if they found the perpertrater and the excuse but I just don't think there is a good excuse. JMO

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manny2 — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:32:21 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@Love my grandkids Read the link. It was grandpa who did it. He's now off the family babysitting roster.

He is 62 years old. Hardly old and feeble. What is wrong with people. Once on his way to where ever he was going didn't he realize he was missing something? I guess not!

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chrystaltree — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:53:33 GMT

No Christmas present for Grandpa this year. Thank heavens it was just 45 minutes. It's scary to think what could have happened.

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chrystaltree — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:05:16 GMT

@manny2 wrote:
I don't understand how someone can leave a child in a car, and not realize it within 60 seconds. I' m being generous with the 60 seconds.

If you get in the car with your child, how can you leave a rental car, without your child. It does not make any logical sense to me at all.

Part of the reason is the addiction to cell phones. I see parents glued to their phones totally oblivious to their

I didn't see anything about cell phones in the article....

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Love my grandkids — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:38:41 GMT

@Kachina624 Fine. And he should be charged with child endangerment. I don't care how old he is, charge him.

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chickenbutt — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:39:52 GMT

I read the piece just now and this is one part that has me a bit confuzzled -

"When airport staff tried to reach out to the driver, their calls were unsuccessful. However, a call came in from the child’s mother who had just learned the child’s grandfather left the toddler in the rental car – not at his home, as he’d told her."

Is there someting weird/mysterious going on here, aside from him just maybe "forgetting" the child in the car?

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CelticCrafter — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:44:40 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
I read the piece just now and this is one part that has me a bit confuzzled -

"When airport staff tried to reach out to the driver, their calls were unsuccessful. However, a call came in from the child’s mother who had just learned the child’s grandfather left the toddler in the rental car – not at his home, as he’d told her."

Is there someting weird/mysterious going on here, aside from him just maybe "forgetting" the child in the car?

@chickenbutt I'm thinking the same thing, something seems off.

Where did he go after he left the car, did he get on a plane, did someone pick him up?

Was there anyone home where he supposedly left her?

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Kachina624 — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:24:38 GMT

@Love my grandkids wrote:
@Kachina624 Fine. And he should be charged with child endangerment. I don't care how old he is, charge him.

@Love my grandkids They took him to jail and I'm guessing he will be charged.

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chrystaltree — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:10:00 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
I read the piece just now and this is one part that has me a bit confuzzled -

"When airport staff tried to reach out to the driver, their calls were unsuccessful. However, a call came in from the child’s mother who had just learned the child’s grandfather left the toddler in the rental car – not at his home, as he’d told her."

Is there someting weird/mysterious going on here, aside from him just maybe "forgetting" the child in the car?

Maybe he was under the influence of something and didn't know where he left the child or he did remember but was scared to own up to it. It's likely we'll never know.

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haddon9 — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:49:08 GMT

@manny2 wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
@Love my grandkids Read the link. It was grandpa who did it. He's now off the family babysitting roster.
He is 62 years old. Hardly old and feeble. What is wrong with people. Once on his way to where ever he was going didn't he realize he was missing something? I guess not!

@manny2 He may not be old and feeble but my brother's partner is 66 (okay just 4 years older) and has been diagnosed with Lewy Body dementia. It's just terrible and he imagines and see all kinds of crazy things. He was driving up until this past May.

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qbetzforreal — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:13:46 GMT

From the news story:

Authorities said XXXX was remorseful and cooperative with deputies but was charged with one count of child neglect and transported to the Volusia County Branch Jail.

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Trailrun23 — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 03:10:02 GMT

I know the grandpa went to jail, the baby was returned to her mother, but they are so lucky she was found as soon as she was so the temp inside the car did not get any hotter. This article just breaks my heart.

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phoenixbrd — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:25:27 GMT

First consideration, now that the child is safe, is getting grandpa a medical workup. Sounds as if there is a medical issue and he should not be driving, much less with a child in the car.

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mimomof4 — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:46:22 GMT

I don't care who is taking the child in the car. Absolutely NO excuse for leaving a child in a car. It doesn't matter if it is a parent, grandparent or babysitter. I will never understand how this happens.

This line in the article is rather suspect "the child’s grandfather left the toddler in the rental car – not at his home, as he’d told her." Wouldn't the grandfather be WITH the child at his home, you aren't leaving a 2 year old at a home by themselves. No mention of the grandmother. Maybe the mother needs to take the grandfather in for a dementia test (if he really did forget that may be a result of a more serious issue).

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Northray — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:58:26 GMT

I just cannot understand how a person can forget a child in a car. Unless you are dissociative (you should be in a facility), stone cold drunk, on heroin (you see the child but you just don't care), or LSD (you think the child is an evil stuffed animal) there is no way on God's green planet that you can overlook a child in a car. It's just a willful act of cruelty!