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[occasionalrain]

Another mother left her five year old behind in her car, in the heat, for hours. Of course he died.. How is it possible for a mother to forget her child? She should be charged with negligent homicide and go to jail.

[moonandthestars]

@occasionalrain so incredibly sad and hard to understand.  Do you know where she was all that time?  

[Mz iMac]

She's not the first & sadly she will not be the last.  Today is the FIRST day of summer.

[skatting44]

@moonandthestars 

she was inside her home setting up a birthday party for her daughter.  She did not check on her  5 yr old for 3 hours

[moonandthestars]

@skatting44  Sigh.  So incredibly sad.  and impossible to understand.  Thanks for the info.

[occasionalrain]

Another couple left their three month old son in their car in their driveway who also died. Both happened in the last weeks. 

[AuntG]

A person might wonder how something like that could happen, but it's too common of an occurrence. It's happened on school buses, in parking lots, and in private driveways. So very tragic .

[CrazyKittyLvr2]

I read that this morning.  Not only did the Mother not notice he wasn't around neither did the 8 yr. old sister.

It's not like the Duggars where there are 19 kids to keep track off.

That poor little guy must have been scared out of his mind.

[occasionalrain]

It would seem their children are low on their list of priorities. 

[chickenbutt]

I never had kids, so I have no idea how one could forget their kid strapped in a car seat, in the heat/sun, or even at all.   But it's rather shocking how many times this seems to happen each year.

I remember one year, a while back, when there were two of these stories here locally.   The circumstances were identical.  The one person was just a regular nobody and was prosecuted.  The other person was well known and well off, and was not prosecuted.   I always felt like that spoke volumes.