Current Events > Baby died in car while parents attend church service.

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Wouldn't God, ya know, warn the parents?

All the hoops people will jump through to justify this. Being tired/experiencing sleep deprivation is apparently enough to make you forget about your own child but you can sit through church just fine. Fuck outta here.

Being forgetful is not bringing diapers or a bottle with you. Theres no excuse to forget that your newborn child is in the car seat when you put them in it minutes ago.

The fact is that it's a known problem that it's not rare for parents to forget about their kids. Doesn't matter how much people stamp their feet that it'll never happen to them, it does. Not one of these parents thought their kid would die this way.

Read this if you doubt it: http://wapo.st/SOwhu8
Article won a Pullitzer which is more than any of the posters screaming about throwing the parents in prison have ever accomplished.

Its either:
* The parent forgot the kid was in the backseat. Not too hard to do when youre sleep deprived and maybe naturally forgetful/rushing.
* The parent is stupid and doesnt understand that cars get hot in the sun and are dangerous for children.

I think the latter in this case. I cant imagine their plan when they left home was to bring their baby inside the church but forgot for 3 hours.

I wouldn't do it. Guess I'm just a superior lifeform to these worthless sacks of shit who forgot they were raising children.

Are we going to defend beating children too? "You know, sometimes humans just get angry and do things they don't mean to. Don't act like it couldn't happen to you. We can't punish people over being human and occassionally lapsing in judgement"

I was a sleep deprived parent when my son was young, and I never left him in a car for more than a few minutes, usually putting gas in the car as he slept.

Ive seen a lot of people defend corporal punishment by saying I was spanked and I turned out fine

Did you read the article?

The mentality of "this would never happen to me" is the type of mentality that leads to it happening.

How does this keep happening? Ive heard stories of these kind of tragedies my entire life and I dont understand how a parent can be this negligent.

Among shitty, stupid people, sure. Kinda like when people defend kids bullying and committing violence with "You didn't do things you regret growing up?" No, I really didn't.

So what's with Florida

Different story, but I saw a headline on CNN that read: Florida woman's car catches fire with her children inside while she was allegedly shoplifting in a mall. She apparently spent an hour in a store shoplifting with a male partner and dropped the items to run out when she noticed her car engulfed in flames. She was then arrested, though initially for other warrants dealing with charges of theft, assault, and battery. Edit: One of the children suffered first degree burns to her face, but bystanders intervened to save the kids.

So what's with Florida and leaving children unattended in cars?

Did you read the article? It is not a purposeful act like bullying. It's the danger of being in a daily repetitive routine and the brain being on autopilot.

Having the mindset of "it will never happen to me" is why people don't think about it happening to them.

If people make that big of a mistake, they need to pay for it.

I'm not saying I advocate living life with reckless abandon, just that "remember to not do anything that can kill your child" is like telling an adult to be actively remembering that a hot stove is burning hot. Maybe some people need to do that, but it isn't anyone and everyone.

"The initial investigation revealed that the mother arrived late to a church service she was officiating and believed the victim was brought inside by a member of the church," the police department said in a statement Thursday night. "Approximately three hours later, after service concluded, the mother noticed her child was not inside or with any church member and immediately responded to her vehicle where her child was found still in the car seat and unresponsive."
The infant was transported to a local hospital where she was later pronounced dead, police said. A police department spokesperson said Friday they have not yet received the medical examiner's final report for the official cause of death.
The girl's 37-year-old mother, identified as Bulaine Molme, was arrested Thursday and is being charged with one count of aggravated manslaughter of a child, police said.
Calls to Mount of Olives Evangelical Church were not answered.
"This is an unfortunate incident, and our condolences and prayers go out to the family," Palm Bay Police Chief Mario Augello said in a statement.

I read the article, and it doesn't say the same thing the OP says it says?

The story made no sense to me until I read this. Sounds like the appropriate charge.

I guess it was updated. So that's good.

This was definitely deliberate. Maybe not the death, but leaving the kid in the car.

"Forgot" nothing. It's an 11 month old in a car. There's like a 95% chance the thing was loudly making itself known, if you get my meaning.

I did and I don't think it was deliberate, but I'm just not buying that it could happen to anyone. And it doesn't matter. If people make that big of a mistake, they need to pay for it. "It could happen to you too" is just an excuse. People just have to be better than that.

I'm not saying I advocate living life with reckless abandon, just that "remember to not do anything that can kill your child" is like telling an adult to be actively remembering that a hot stove is burning hot. Maybe some people need to do that, but it isn't anyone and everyone.