~How In God's Name Does This Happen???~

That is a shame! One does not leave a purse inside a car, much less a BABY!!! And you don´t pass on the responsibility to someone else. You take out the baby and hand it over to someone who can take care of him.
I can´t imagine how thew poor parents are!!! There are no words for this!!!

It happens all the time and I have no idea how people forget their children in the car. Mine have never been quiet enough to forget, even as new borns they were loud and cried all the time. I just don't get it. You would think a center would have a head count after a "field trip" mine always have.

That's a real pity. Its sad a child should suffer such a fate. It happened in my country before.

Talk about negligence. There was a case in my country where a little infant fell from an apartment block but I can't remember which floor. Apparently this infant had jaundice and the grandmother advised that the infant be basked in the sun so that she'll get better. And what they did was they put her outside window on a flat piece of material supported by bamboo poles used for drying clothes. The poor child somehow rolled over, fell and died. How could the parents be such an idiot to put the little child in such a dangerous situation? I almost cried when I read the poor little child suffered such a fate.

Hey boppie, This is so disgusting that I am almost at
a loss for words, but you know me and that will never
happen. I just cannot fathom how this could happen.
How do you forget you have a child in the car. And
forget for 6 hours??? All they're doing is revoking a
license. How about charging someone with murder?
The mother with neglect? I just don't know how these
people are allowed to be parents and this one ran a
daycare. Now her child is dead. Please God-help me
understand.

Hi there boppiedog

This is a really shocking story, it's absolutely outrageous. I have 3 kids and can't imagine 'forgetting' about one of them. I have never been late to pick them up from school or preschool or anything because I have forgotten to. How does anyone forget about a child especially in that profession?

That's just disturbing, it would have not taken long for that lady to retrieve that child on her own from the backseat. Never the less she should have checked to see if the employee she had asked to retrieve the child for her, had actually done it.

This is one of the many reasons that I just refuse to take my children to child daycare of any sort. If it's something that can't include the kids than I just find a responsible family member or friend to care for my children or if one can't be found we just don't do it. Even before I started working from home, my husband and I worked it so one or the other would be home to watch the kids while the other was working.

As far as forgetting about having a child in the car, I don't see how that is possible since even when mine are being extra quiet I'm always looking in the rearview mirror checking on them. I understand that in this day and age we all are busy people and do forget things, but when it deals with someone else's life or kid, there is just some things we should not be forgetting.

I have no idea at all how this can happen. When my son was little, I never left him - for even 30 seconds - in a car alone. If I got out, so did he.

And I worked as a daycare director and transported children for a daycare center. There is supposed to be such a good checking system done that a child should never left unattended or not accounted for. This makes me soooooooooo angry.

We had an incident here in Cincinnati last year, where a school principal actually left her child in a hot car. As part of the news coverage, the reporter researched what happens to a child or animal that is left in a hot car - how fast the car gets really hot, what happens to the bodies, how long it takes to die. It's not a nice way to die.

Oh my god! Was the center owner the baby's mother? If not the poor mother should sue. Is there an article somewhere on the internet about this, I would like to know more about this. My children are in daycare, so it makes me wonder. That is so sad. How could anyone forget the baby, and was someone charged with anything because of it? I hope so!

I can understand how situations like these can make anyone outraged. However, I wouldn't be so quick to judge. I'm sure the woman who is resposible for this incident will have scars for life. I pray for the parents of the child, the child and the woman who did this.

Forgetting a child in a car is not as hard as you think. The child falls asleep so he/she isn't making a sound. The person gets distracted by traffic or the plans for the day or perhaps bringing the child to daycare is not a part of the woman's routine and she was operating on remote control. She may have been tired or hurried. There are a lot of reasons but not one that will replace that child.

Something similiar happened to me so I know from experience how easily things like this happen. I gave birth to 2 children in the same year. I was use to carrying around my first child by the time the second was born. I had taken both kids to my mom's house to visit. When it was time to leave, I packed up all their stuff and grabbed my first born. I strapped him in his car seat and got behind the wheel and started to drive off before I realized I had left my second child behind. I didn't do it deliberately, and I was really lucky that it was a safe place that I had left him in and not a hot car but it could've happened.

I can't answer that boppiedog because to me, there is absolutely no excuse for this. No way to explain it away. This poor child is dead and his parents must be devistated. If I live to be a thousand years old, I'll never understand this. It is so sad and makes my heart break when I hear of yet another child dying from such neglect. The suffering this child must have gone through. It breaks my heart.

Why in the world did the owner go into building without taking the baby with her? Why would she go in and instruct someone to go out and get the baby? There is no excuse. You don't leave a baby alone in a care, period. Not even for a moment.

This death could have and should have been avoided. So very, very sad and makes me so very, very mad.
Nana