Can you link the Parker thread for us here. TIA.
Many years ago, we had a child die in the car here in the Rochester area. There were no charges because the mother forgot to drop off the kid at daycare and didn't realize it. She was horribly upset. It wasn't intentional, just a very sad thing. No charges were filed. I have no idea how someone could deal with themselves after something like that, but it happens.
Sorry, I thought I did. I will. I had copied, just forgot to put in.
As to your comment, it DOES happen. I'll even go so far as to say I truly believe in what is called a mom brain. Perhaps fathers have such too.
You are handling so many things multitasking, etc... We all do many a thing on automatic pilot.
It's a reason maybe too, day cares, like schools, if expecting the child, should call immediately when the child is not dropped off. Not saying they have any responsibility as to what happened, but it would be a good measure.
I don't know how COMMON this is though... And you know, I am assuming the children are in the back seat in these cases. Because you'd hopefully do a sweep of your front seat when you get out. I think a good thing for a parent to do then too is put something they need for work or anywhere they go, like their purse in the back seat. I mean they could forget that too if rushed, but it wouldn't hurt. Men too, wallet? Nah because let me tell you, do you do this, where I work it is a daily occurrence how many men, always at least one, usually more get to checkouts and pat their pockets they are all checked, time to pay and find they left their wallet in the car. I assume most take it out of their back pocket so they aren't sitting on it and then they come in shop and never realized until time to pay.
So that might not work for them, but I am sure you get my drift. It wouldn't guarantee anything but might help the chance of noticing IF accidentally leaving a child in the car.
Hey, this guy is upset and I'm really TORN on whether he wanted her to die or not. Seriously. No one is that much of a MORON, It's TUSCON, that is even farther south than Phoenix! That just reminds me I forgot the date in the title of the thread.... Arghhh. Haven't started one in a long time. Thought I covered the key things.
Took some time copying all too and starting it.
I hope you'll follow it along with me. We may not agree on all cases, but that's not always the case.
There's a lot of things in this case one really has to wonder about... A LOT. And I think the other two children are older. She'd be the one that takes the most care for him every day. I don't know but I'm assuming he was the one at home with them and I don't think he worked, and supposedly he had had, maybe still did, a drinking problem and gets obsessed in his video games. Yeah, you can lose track of all when doing such but he wasn't DOING that when he left her in there and he made a HABIT of this with all of his kids.
You know, I need to mention this in the thread too but in looking tonight and moving things, some of her pictures look like she was probably the closer side of two to age three. It's a shame she was not taught how to get out, although that of course can be risky in other ways but normally you are IN THE CAR WITH THEM.
On the other hand, he claims she was sleeping so unless she ever woke up hot and sweaty, that would not have helped.
The remark somewhere, I don't recall in the things I linked, is that he counted on the older kids to remind him she was in the car. That remark is DESPICABLE. They are KIDS, also, not even sure if all were home or there, etc.
I'm having a very hard time with the mother in law and especially the wife. I GET you went to work loving the man and your family but come on. And her text that day is one that helped hang him... With THESE facts, and she is a doctor so not unintelligent I'd imagine, how can she even think he would not be charged, and very seriously charged?
And then again it is something like 59 times, they named a NUMBER of times he had left the kids in the car like this. Okay she warned him before and everything and said as much but uhm wouldn't you find SOME way to stop it if he keeps ignoring such? Try day care??? Kick him to the curb if he does not comply??? Take them to grandma's and tell him not another cent if she is the sole bread winner, you need to get a job or get responsible with the kids NOW?!!
The facts are just awful and entirely damning, no way around it. And he bawled. OVER HIS ARREST. Like was in disbelief.
Again it is summer in AZ in southern AZ in fact and he KNOWINGLY LEFT HER IN THERE.
Your case may be different but I also think there are probably some that have gotten away with such where it maybe wasn't such an accident or they just couldn't prove otherwise, maybe got a negligence charge or something....
it sure seems a LOT more common. Not so many years back, the way I recall it, they were looking at most as accidents.... And then I think they got one, it was clear was not and some started using such to ease their load because they saw it often was ruled out as an accident.
Sorry to say it but seems that way to me.
I will go snag the thread link.
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