What should be done this parent who accidentally left her own child in the vehicle?

Question

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What punishment should be dispensed? Should any be dispensed?

Answer 1

how can a parent *accidentally* leave a child in the car? doesn't the child matter to them at all???

for such people the punishment should be imprisonment and no right from now on to have other children

Answer 2

If she'd been busted the first time she left her daughter in the car, she wouldn't have had a chance to COOK her daughter the second time around. When was the last time you jumped into your hot car and panted while the air conditioner worked to cool it down? Can you imagine being a little child sitting in that heat until you died?

Not only should this woman go down for 2nd degree murder, voluntary manslaughter or SOMETHING that will put her away for a long time, but whoever let her get away with it the first time should be charged as an accessory. Neither one of them should EVER be near children again.

Answer 3

What a horrible way to die. I can't get past that. I also can't believe ANYONE would forget their child for eight hours. This woman had a history of disregarding the safety of her children. It was only a matter of time. THAT is a charge against our society. I doubt her older child should be left in that household, given the history, but foster care is seldom any better.

She definitely needs serious parenting courses and counseling and I wouldn't object to charging her with a crime. I don't know what the hell you'd do with someone like this.

Answer 4

It's a horrible tragedy. But it seems that the mother had a "habit" of leaving her child in the car and forgetting about her, so this was not an isolated incident. She should be neutered. And her older child should be taken away until she is deemed fit to be a mother.

As a parent of three children, I know how easy it is to forget a baby in a car. Once I was supposed to drop our baby off at daycare (which was not my normal responsibility) and halfway to work, when I glanced in the rear view mirror I saw her car seat, and it freaked me out because in being late for work I had forgotten all about it.

But as I said above, this mother had a habit of leaving her baby in the car. There is a difference between an accident and negligence.

Answer 5

You know, I can sometimes understand how a man can forget, but not a mom. I know a guy who forgot his little one was in the car. The whole family went shopping, he let the mom out to go to the bathroom, she took the older one. Well while he was waiting, he ran into a store real quick. Forgot the little one who was sound asleep in the back seat. When he came out probably no more then 5 minutes later an older woman was standing there and laid into this poor guy. But like this guy said, I am not used to having the kids by myself, I go to work, get out and go, and usually if I go anywhere it's either with my wife or by myself. So that was just natural for him. Probably A lot of dads have to take a double look when they get out of there car. And that guy who forgot is a wonderfull dad.

Answer 6

Any parent that leaves a child in a hot car should be in jail. If the child survives, the child should be removed from the home. That parent is a danger to that child!

I can't believe that this mother "forgot" her daughter was there. Her case was dismissed before it went to the grand jury. The community is "outraged."

Answer 7

I actually know a mother who did this. Child is fine.

Our modern lives are very complicated, with much going on all at once. sometimes, regrettably, we forget things. Unfortunately, on rare occasion, the results are tragic.

But holding a parent criminally liable for this is a symptom of the depravity of our society. Everything requires a someone to blame....anyone. Any parent who has a child injured or worse in such a circumstance will never forgive themselves. They'll become an inmate in a prison worse than any man can devise. No one has to tell them they did wrong. No one has to tell them anything.

This rush to blame in our society is slowly, but surely, destroying it. Especially, as our society has become so incompetent in assigning blame, even when it's deserved.

Answer 8

She should go to jail. How can you forget your own child for eight hours? That poor little girl who had to suffer so much before she died and only because her mother forgot about her.

That woman should be stripped of being a parent and her other child should be taken away from her. Obviously, this woman is a unfit mother.

Answer 9

As a mother of two I can't understand how it happened but if you imagine yourself in her shoes a moment and imagine the horror at the moment she realized.

I was moved to tears. I bet she wouldn't care if she were put in jail because nothing could hurt her like what's already happened.

Around 340 children died in cars this year, I didn't catch the exact number.

I see moms leave their kids in cars way to often.

Answer 10

If nothing else she should be tried for manslaughter. And if she is found guilty then they should also take any other children she has away,and her parental rights should be removed so she never has any claim to her children. And if she has any other children they should be removed from her custody at birth,she has no right to children. I am always amazed how useless people can be,forgetting a child in a car,leading to it's death is simply inexcusable.

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