Mum leaving infant in hot car for over an hour yesterday

[Gummybear11]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7171809/Firefighters-forced-smash-window-rescue-18-month-old-left-hot-car-hour.html

Seriously? Who does this??

Insanity!! Should be charged.

Even if it was the coldest day of the year, why did she leave a child that age for so long?

He would be aware of his surroundings.

Very odd.

Exactly, I'd be so paranoid that they would wake up and be scared, or an opportunistic predator would happen to see them in the car alone. Let alone the heat!

Quite apart from the heat, what if the toddler got out of the car seat and started messing with the hand break etc ? It's incredulous anyone would do this .

The stupidity of some people...shocking

I wonder if somehow she just forgot him? Looks like she had an o,dear child with her.....all very odd.

older child

Forgot him, my arse. What a foolish thing to do.

Forgot him, my arse. What a foolish thing to do.

I was nearly on the motorway the other day when ds2 asked why I wasn’t taking him and Ds3 to nursery. I’d dropped ds1 off at breakfast club and clean forgotten the other 2. It happens.

She was more upset about her car!

Ive left the dc outside the convenience store and petrol station and doctors pharmacy to get medicine. Thats for 5mins. 10 max.

She should have been questioned.

My friend is in New Zealand and she posted about a case a while back where a mother had 'forgotten' that the child was in the back of the car so didn't drop them off at nursery and then went to work or whatever and left them all day and they had tragically died.

I just can't imagine how that happened - it happened at a nursery in Wales last year I think it was as well. A child left on a minibus all afternoon although thankfully she survived. Terrifying.

Forgot him, my arse. What a foolish thing to do.

It happens quite a lot. Parents forget to drop babies and toddlers off at childcare and just leave them in their parked car outside work. The temperature rises in the sunshine, the child dies and the parent finds when they return to their car.

I had a parent who did this but, fortunately, the child was awake and just old enough to express surprise at arriving in her work car park. If he'd been smaller or asleep, he might well not have survived. She was dreadfully shocked at what she nearly did.

There was a tragic story in the guardian about a woman who forgot to drop her toddler off at childminders. Left him in the car and he died. It was chilling.

It happens quite a lot.

By this I mean that the deaths in America are in the tens every year.

Reserving judgement until more details. It sounds like she definitely did do something wrong, eg leaving a child for at least 10 mins in a hot car, but despite the 'more than an hour' headlines, all that is known is that she parked an hour earlier, we don't know if she might have put the toddler in the car just before it was noticed.

As I said, even if it was 10 minutes, that was the wrong thing to do, especially without any ventilation. But we know nothing else about her as a parent or what happened that day, so I am loathe to start labelling her negligent or cruel or even stupid. She might just have fucked up collossaly while exhausted and at the end of her teather, and otherwise be a great parent. I'm not going to judge a parent on one thing (unless it is blatant cruelty) without all the context.

I read an article in the local paper about a non verbal child being left on his school transport bus all day they only found him at the start of pick up fortunately he was fine, I have a non verbal child who goes to a special school(although not the same school) it's scary,

Reletives of mine ran into a wedding they were were late for with their children. Only when they heard the car alarm did they remember their toddler, thankfully only a few minutes.

I think it’s fairly unlikely she parked, wandered off with two children for 40-50 minutes, came back, actively put child in car and then walked off for ten minutes plus? And actually she would have noticed the heat more when being outside, so it’s as bad in a way as the first scenario.

That was in response to Echobelly

Can see how it could happen, mother tired and preoccupied rushing to get things done, other child demanding attention. Baby fast asleep so forgotten about.

@Greyhound22
That - luckily - seems to be a creepypasta with a known author, read by different readers on several channels. I think it's called "autopilot".

No, the New Zealand case really happened. www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/no-conviction-in-infants-hot-car-death-2015060510

I hope it's not true as I found it really upsetting.

I know the Wales one is true as I read the articles and my cousins live near to it and we're discussing it when we visited.

It's happened in the US too, and likely elsewhere.

I had a work colleague once who came round here, she has six kids. Brought some with her. After 15 mins she jumped up and shrieked something about "the baby" ran out the house and came back 3 mins later with another one. She had forgotten her youngest.