Police: Infant spotted in parked car before his de

I think most of us agree-anyone can make a mistake, even a tragic mistake. Think about talking on the cell phone while driving, eating a burger, or changing the radio station. Don't tell me you never found yourself wandering into another lane and realized you were glad no one else was there-it happens.
The parents made a tragic mistake-poor communication, one thought the other knew, but he didn't, or he forgot.
But the person who actually saw the baby in the hot car, I can't understand at least waiting to verify the security guard found the right car and resolved the situation. That is negligent, and unforgiveable to me.
 
Ignatius, didn't you know: "It Takes A Village To Raise A Child". -HRC

So there you have it. It's clearly the woman's fault.
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While the father is ultimately responsible, you really have to wonder about someone that can clearly see the event unfolding, yet do virtually nothing to stop it. Would it have been that difficult to stand by the car, call someone at work, have them send out the security guard, and wait a few minutes to flag them down?

"sorry I'm late for the meeting, some dumbass left their kid in the car out in the parking lot"
 
Ignatius -

I put the "almost" in there for a reason. I guess you missed it. I still hold the father responsible because its his child and his obligation to keep him safe. However, there was no intent for this to happen on his part. I dont hate him for this as much as I feel for the kid and the family.

I have lived in Texas all of my life too, as have my grandparents on both sides of my family. I promise that in 1939 or in 2009 they wouldnt have just called the cops when they saw a kid in a car in 103 degree heat and left somebody else to deal with it.

The woman on the other hand, has no responsibility for this child but is much more 'hatable" in my mind because she saw the fathers mistake and didnt take it upon herself to make the situation right.
 
Ignatius, don't take my "The father had a brain lock--it happens" wrong. The fact is it does happen--way too often, but that certainly doesn't excuse it. As I pointed out, all involved share responsibility as all had an opportunity to prevent the senseless death of a child, but all failed. And, yes, I'd be willing to bet the woman and security guards are not parents. If they were I suspect they'd have taken more initiative to see that the child was safe. Something about becoming a parent yourself makes you more aware of child safety. Unfortunately for the father, he failed in this instance with a tragic result.
 
I will say I am surprised she was not more assertive in getting help. Why didn't she take the guards to the car or if they had to finish their coffee and donuts first, why didn't she call 911 to get help?

She knew this was a life or death situation for the baby. Even if she was late to work I doubt her boss would have said anything once he found out what caused her to be late. I think this is why she is being criticized so much. She saw the baby was in a life and death situation but did not bother to follow through to make sure the baby was rescued.

No, I don't really get how a parent could forget they had their baby that morning.
 
Ignatius, I just can't fathom how you think. Did you even read the article linked above?

Look, have you ever forgotten something? I promise you have. Hopefully in your case it wasn't something important. However, these parents have just made the most horrific mistake that I can imagine. It's the exact same process as forgetting to pick up the dry cleaning on the way home, except the results are unimaginable.

Now, the woman who saw the kid was in an entirely different situation. She made a decision not to be certain the child was found. How is that not a million times worse? She made a conscious decision to go on with her life without making sure that the baby was OK.
 
We don't know the exact set of circumstances which led to the father's tragic mistake. There was some discussion that the day he was to take the child was switched, so the wife may have put the sleeping kid in the car, and told the father, but he didn't hear her, or something like that. We don't know.
But we do know the woman in the parking lot saw the child. And she didn't follow up on seeing the child safely removed from the vehicle.
As in many cases, I would have to be on the jury to hear all the evidence to know the extend of the mistake, and if I felt a crime had been committed by the father.
 
By not mistake vs mistake I mean something done on purpose vs something done accidentally without trying to.
 
OrangeBlooded is correct. I am a parent and I personally feel that a fit parent doesn't forget an infant in a car. I know that there are plenty of unfit parents out there and I believe that this is just another case.

I don't know any of the details here, but I do understand how it could happen to a parent. I also understand how the good samaritan could have left it in the hands of security. If this parking lot had in-and-out traffic all day, I understand how security could have discontinued a search assuming that the parent had just left the child short-term and left.

I don't have any opinion on charges here and I am glad that it is not my job to make those decisions.
 
Mrs. ImWP and I met up at a park about 6 or 7 years ago with 3 of our 4 kids. We had driven in separate cars, and my wife says she was going home ahead of me to start fixing lunch. I was at one slide with our youngest child, so I thought she had left with the other two. She thought I knew that one was still there playing on the jungle gym behind me. A few minutes later, I left without the jumgle gym kid. Fortunately, the abandoned daughter knew our cell phone numbers and asked some other mom to call us to find out where we were. I was less than five minutes away, so I rushed back to the park to get her.

My wife chewed my *** out good, but I still blame the other mom.
 
Man this is a ****** up story. The parent who left their kid is the responsible party.

I don't have kids but I am scared to **** after hearing these stories. I will need to get some kind of alarm or something.
 
This again is why we're all jumping to conclusions.

Did the woman tell the guards... I parked in section c and RIGHT next to me was a kid. OR did she just say... Somewhere there was a kid. Good luck.

My guess is that she said approximately where it was and described the car. Given those bits of info, the cops should've been able to find the baby easily.

If she didn't say anything like that... then yeah... she's really at fault.
 
Didn't read the story in the initial post but did read the long *** story Milkman linked detailing the many incidents of this happening and why it happens. That article was absolutely heartbreaking and really does a good job of explaining how and why this happens more and more. In the lady's defense, is it possible that the car was parked in an area where the lady thought the parents were nearby or simply running a quick errand? For instance, how many of us would break into a car if we saw a child inside at a gas station or a fast food restaurant? I bet many of us wouldn't even think twice about it. I guess I could read the story and get the details, but after seeing the post criticizing the lady I wonder what thoughts could've been going through her head to make her react in such a way. There's defintely more to the story.
 
Just having something be your #1 priority ensures you will not forget it? Or do you specifically do things to remind yourself?

I personally am equally likely forget or remember something trivial as something important. I have to make myself remember important things to remember them - unless they are really routine in which case they become automatic. If something intentional and directed doesn't happen, it's seemingly out of my control if it stays in memory or not. So I can see how people can forget something really important if they haven't either written it down or been continually repeating it to themselves in their head.

Especially when under a lot of stress or when really tired. Like I said earlier, my mom once, when dealing with multiple hectic things at once and in a big hurry, started asking one of my sisters and I if we'd seen our 1-year old sister anywhere, frantically searching the house. She was carrying her. If a parent can forget a kid's whereabouts in her arms, it seems even easier to forget a kid in the backseat. It just so happens that only one of these can be fatal.
 
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