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[chickenbutt]

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?

[CelticCrafter]

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@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?

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@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?

[Kachina624]

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@Love my grandkids wrote:

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

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

[chrystaltree]

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@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]

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@manny2 wrote:

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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

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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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@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.

[qbetzforreal]

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.

[Trailrun23]

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. 

[phoenixbrd]

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.

[mimomof4]

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).

[Northray]

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!