When will people ever learn NOT to leave young kids unattended.?

Question

A five-year-old boy has been strangled after getting his head stuck in an car's electric window. Neighbours said the boy, who has not been named, was playing with his brother when his neck became trapped.

His mother had parked the car outside their home in Croydon, Surrey, but left the engine running. Police and paramedics arrived at the scene but were unable to revive the boy. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "It is believed a five-year-old boy was playing in the family car when his head became trapped in the window. "He was taken to St George's Hospital, Tooting, but was pronounced dead."

No wonder kids are dying/getting killed and why so many end up causing trouble when they are older & not taking a blind bit of notice of adults.

Kaybee - are you kidding (excuse the pun!).

KIds left unattended in a car with a key in the ignition?

PK et all - you are blowing up a bit much here - I never said parent was evil witch!!!!!

Answer 1

A very unfortunate freek accident by the sounds of it.

A great pity she didn't take the key out of the ignition and disable the electric windows.

This is NOT a case of child neglet or bad parenting.

My sympathy goes out to the family.

Answer 2

I know people disagree about whether to leave children in a car for a couple minutes to run inside for an errand -- but with the ignition running??? That's ridiculous! Why would you leave kids in the car with the key! Wouldn't you be inviting someone to hi-jack the car, kidnap the kids. I think 5 is awfully young to be left in a car alone but regardless, don't you all think it's a good rule of thumb that you should never leave anyone who doesn't have a driver's license inside a car that's turned on. That way you automatically prevent a lot of disasters.

Answer 3

That is just terrible. I have a 7 year old that I can't stand to have outside without me or my husband. Life isn't like the good old days when we were children. When I was 7, I stayed outside all day alone or with neighborhood kids and would only come home for dinner, but we as parents cannot do this anymore. My parents had cars with the hand-roll down windows. I guess they are less safe now that almost everyone has power windows.

Answer 4

You are right. Children should not be left on their own at all.
They are our responsibility and we should make them safe
and realise that awful things do happen. We should not think
that it only happens to other people. I feel for the parent though. Forever they will blame themselves.

I let my ten year old daughter go to her friends house to play.
An hour later I was looking through the window on my landing
and saw her friends walking down the road and my daughter
was talking the a youth by the shops. I felt sick, I was mad with her for leaving her friends. I ran out and across the road
only to see when I got nearer that it was my 18yr old son!
I was relieved but the feeling I got - it was awful. So she
still got a lecture off me!! She and my son were surprised that I though she would do anything like that in the first place.
But she is 10 going on 18!! Minxy.

Answer 5

wow
the holier-than-thou brigade are out in force today!

Jesus said 'Judge not, less ye be judged'
but don't let that stop you YA-ers
Just jump on the poor grieving parent and assume she was some sort of neglectful witch

Before talking about neglect and comparing her with people who stuff babies in lockers, or leave them in boiling hot cars, maybe you could try showing some compassion, and thinking about mistakes you have made in your life.
have you ever made a mistake. oh right, but YOUR mistake didn't end in a tragedy, so her mistake means that she an evil witch and your mistake didn't count and you are still little miss perfect.
there might have been a hundred reasons why she had to go back into her house. Maybe she was too distracted to think about keys. maybe the kids were making too much noise. maybe they wanted the radio on. who knows. I DON'T KNOW and YOU DON'T KNOW, either.
so, she's suffered the worst tragedy of her life. cut her some slack and stop stabbing her in the back with your vicious innuendo.

I just read the answer from some evil cow who compared this poor mother with people who let their children run wild in the street at 3am. some people are just Un-fcuking-believable

Answer 6

I know, its quite unbelievable that anyone could be so stupid as to leave the engine on, which presumably means the keys were in the ignition. Surely commonsense would tell anyone that even if the car is empty you don't do that. Unfortunately commonsense is something that so many people seem to lack and I don't think its something that really can be taught. So once again, as you say, because of a parent's stupidity, an innocent youngster has paid with his life and the trauma for the other child could be lifechanging.

Answer 7

Children should never be left alone in a car under any circumstances.

I may be wrong, but I'm sure there are laws about leaving dogs in cars, so why not have laws about our most precious possessions like our children ?

We, as responsible adults, should endeavour to keep cars and kids separate, unless under proper supervision, or for the use the car is intended, to transport them from one location to another, safely.

Answer 8

Yes but I bet no one regrets the decision more than his mother.
She might well of been a great mum how can you judge her on one mistake even if it is a big one.
People do not learn from the mistakes of others only from there own experiences.
Don't get me wrong I think it is very sad but I always try to look at my self before I judge.
I never leave my child unattended but no ones perfect, if she just took the key out then he would still be hear now.

Answer 9

It comes back to the same old thing; you need a license to drive, but anyone can have a kid. There was a couple in Delaware, who went for job interviews at the same place. Mom went in first. When she was finished, she decided to get a drink (bar) and lost track of the time. Dad's appointment came, and thinking Mom would be back any minute, he left the kid in the car. When they both finally returned, the child was dead. It was summer and the temp was in the upper 90's. He died of heat exhaustion. Yet another mother was found stuffing her baby into her locker while she worked. We as a society need to take a hard look and come up with some solutions that work instead of just telling governments to take care of it. Governments rarely take the place of responsible parents!

Answer 10

i have left my kids in the car albeit not with the engine running, what a colossal mistake to make, but lets get things into perspective here YOU CANNOT WATCH YOUR KIDS 24HRS A DAY !! it is unhealthy and impossible, this is just one of those tragedy's that we all learn something from. the parents are going through hell and the mother will blame herself for the rest of time, lets not start another witch hunt. **** happens everyday, leave the family be.

Answer 11

For some weird reason people seem to have to experience pain before they learn much. So they probably have to lose one child to disaster before they take good care of the rest.