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??

Good tactic @katnissK

Putting your phone and bag on the back seat is also a good way to remember. You might not be used to taking your baby to work, but you will definitely notice if you don’t have your bag with you.

@BeerandBiscuits bullshit. I'll happily leave my kids in the car to pop in the garage so I am not a " you can not leave kids in the car whatsoever" kind of person. But I would never leave my kid in the car on a hot day. Besides she got the other kid out how could she "forget" the other one? nope she was being a lazy cow. The kid was asleep when she pulled up so thought she'd leave him rather than lug him around and lose a few minutes peace.

She’s a fucking idiot. And so are all those other people who leave their toddlers / babies in cars and « forget» them.
No sympathy for the patents

Please read the Washington Post article linked above and find a sense of sympathy for these poor parents.

That Washington post article is heartbreaking

I think it's a disgrace that she wasn't arrested and charged to be perfectly honest. I don't buy the "She forgot him" chestnut either. If that was the case why did she give more of a shit about her car than her son. Surely if she had forgot him shed have been hysterical.

Do the "lock her up" contingent accept everything the Daily Mail prints as gospel truth? Would explain a lot about the state of affairs in the U.K. these days...

Do the "lock her up" contingent accept everything the Daily Mail prints as gospel truth?

They probably do .
It's blatantly obvious, to me anyway, that the Mail article is slanted to get this reaction. AKA "wind them up and watch them go" journalism.

Fuck me that Washington post article. Tragic, horrific and heartbreaking.

Read the Wales article , can’t bring self to read the Washington one ...

God I’ve been down such a rabbit hole with that article that’s culminated in buying blind spot mirrors and parking sensors. I never want to get in my car again.

Great idea *Katniss" I'll be implementing that.

It happens every year in the US that people forget a child in a hot car.

It happened in Ireland recently in a terribly tragic case.

If I saw a baby or toddler on his own in a car in Ireland, UK or anywhere, no matter what the weather, I would wait 10 minutes by the car and then call the police. On previous threads on MN this idea has been ridiculed. But the reality is parents DO forget children (the WP article explains it perfectly) and it is up to bystanders to not walk by but call attention to it.

My MIL was dropping my son off to daycare many years ago in Boston. She got out of the car to put money in the meter, leaving him inside. A young man walking by on the way to the bus stopped and said "you aren't going to leave him in the car on his own are you?" I think she thought he was too interfering - she wasn't that bothered though - but I thought he was right.

This has always been a fear of mine. A baby died in this way, and it was all over the news when I had my eldest. Awful, awful thing to happen, and actually I can see how. The times when you forget the most important things are when you think you have everything under control but are knackered/stressed.

A man in America a few years ago actually murdered his child in this way. He researched on the Internet about how long it would take for a child to die in a hot car, then he did so. I think his excuse was he was sick of being a parent. Utterly evil man.