Boy dies in hot car (sorry its a DM article!)

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WTF? How can you forget you child is in the car??

Lots of people have stories about forgetting their children at places though. I nearly left one of mine in the supermarket once. Now I'm obsessed with checking and counting and phoning babysitters to make sure they've picked up the right one from the right place etc. It's easier for this kind of thing to happen than you think.

Of course newspapers NEVER add, embellish, forget details or information, or just plain make it up. Just look at the £600,000 awarded today to the man from the Megan case...where it was all made up, they (the newspapers)admitted in court.

Poor poor all, death of a child is a tragedy for the whole family, none of us know the full circumstances, not even the police.

Judge not lest ye be judged...

What, its easy to forget you have left your child locked in a car for 3 hours on a hot day googgly? If you are out of your head on drugs maybe?

I remember fairly recently reading a similar news article from the USA where a mum had left her child in the car and gone to work forgetting to drop the child off at the child minders. The baby was abour 18 months and died in the car from the heat. There used to be campaigns on the T.V etc about leaving dogs to die in hot cars. Perhaps there should be one about leaving your kids in the car.......

pgwithno3 - you don't always have to leave the engine on to have aircon running - my car lets you press a button after the keys are removed which then activates the aircon for a further 2 hours.

Terrible story .

there was one in Italy a year ago about a mum who usually took her baby to nursery first, then the 2 other children to school, then went to work. For some reason one day she had to take the older ones first, then apparently forgot about the baby, who was asleep in the back, drove from school to work as she did every day and parked and got out. That baby died too. It was obviously completely her fault, but I don't find it incomprehensible. It's probably more difficult to identify with if you spend the whole day with your baby all the time, as you would never expect to be getting out of the car without him, so there's no chance of forgetting.

Thanks for that CantSleep. I should know that as DH is in the car repair business and knows EVERYTHING about cars.

No googgly it isn't incomprehensible but obviously very very rare. Don't think many Mumsnetters have ever left their DC locked in a car for a few hours.

It happens here in the US ... last year a teacher left her toddler asleep in the back of her car, you saw the cc v footage of it on the news and it did appear she'd genuinely forgotten the child was sleeping there. She went to WORK for the entire day, and the poor wee soul died. The news also showned the police interview with the mother and her grief and distress were extremely upsetting - she knew what she'd done. As I remember, she wasn't charged with anything - I think the feeling was that a jail term wouldn't achieve anything, her guilt and devastation were punishment enough.

Just last week a 20 month old boy, adopted from Russia, also was 'forgotten' in the back of his father's car. He died too.

It appears to be more of a common occurence in the States - they even have advice segments on the news, reminding parents to check if their child is asleep in the back seat...

I heard of the incident where mother went to work and forgot to drop child at nursery thereb leaving him in car all day. That I can fathom, but, like others have said- a little for two parents together to forget. Still, this is just one account of the story atm.

Here in California it's illegal to leave a child in a car even for a few minutes. It might seem to be more common here because it's so hot and therefore a child can die much more quickly. Our winter is generally in the 70's and our summer is in the 90's. You leave a child in a car in the sun (which we have ALL the time) in a car and the heat will build up in the car within minutes.

very differant to that poor stressed mother last year who honestly thought she'd dropped off the baby at nursery.

i mean when the dad met up with the mother to go shopping did she not ask where her son was? bit odd tbh

I know it is not the same thing at all - but there is a car parked on the corner of my road at the moment with a pitbull locked inside and no windows open at all, not even a crack. It is warm already and is going to be in the thirties today. It has been there for at least half an hour.....

Kitkat - yeah, I read an interview with that poor woman in the states. As I recall that day she had two car seats in her car and the child was sat in a different one to the one he usually sat in. So before she got out of the car, she saw the empty car seat and obviously forgot the child was in the car. Very sad story, shell have to live with that for the rest of her life.

ggglimpopo - call the police about the dog.

Poor little boy.

Am sick to death hearing about neglectful parents in news it's blody shocking! It's a like it's common as hell nowadays. Am so bloody angry about this!!! The chances are they will manage to come to some sort of agreement and they won't go to jail as usual.
Either way they are fully to blame you cannot forget you have a 2.5YO son! Just a case of lazy arse parents whose child has to pay for their thick headed, selfish and moronic neglectful ways! And this crap the parents are traumatised how the hell do they think their little boy felt when he was essentially being cooked alive?

Give them the bloody longest sentence possible for neglect and manslaughter and compulsary sterilisation comes to mind. People like that don't deserve to have kids.

Sorry for the rant people but ARRGGGHHH!

Sweet dreams little man rest peacefully x

Oh sorry when I read that back seems very aggressive but I jut think stories like this are terrible.

And another one

Lots of children dropped off beforehand; this one either overlooked or got back into the car without them knowing.

I can see exactly how it could happen when you're doing something out of the ordinary.

18 kids THIS YEAR! Thats unbelievable! Perhaps this truly was an accident but the other one was just carelessness.

that poor woman

there must have been so much confusion about the house with everyone preparing for the wedding, you can imagine how one kid could have slipped back into the car thinking to tag along with mom without her knowing.

18 kids is an awful lot isn't it? alot of those are people who do it on purpose for conveniance though i think.... easier to leave the kid in the car while doing the shopping than to deal with them in the supermarket... always shocks me how many cars at the shopping centres have kids locked in them, i know this isn't a hot country but there are still so many things that can happen to them

Do you know what youngbutnotdumb I feel exactly the same as you about things like this.

Too many people are simply not paying enough attention to their dcs because they are either drinking or completely absorbed in their own lives.

There, I said it

And your right, it is becoming a more common occurence.

like this lovely lady who was determined not to let anything ruin her holiday

poor baby

I hate stories like this.

My wanker step dad used to leave me in his car while he went to the bookies often for over an hour at a time.