Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)
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Re: Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)
#2I read this when it was first published. The descriptions of what happened when children died of heat exhaustion gave me nightmares for weeks.
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Re: Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)
#4The possibility of doing this terrifies me more than almost anything—by nature I'm a forgetful person. "Out of sight, out of mind" describes me down to a T.
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The article doesn't say they should be convicted. Also, how is it "silly" when people are being put on trial for it?
I feel like the only type of person who asks this question is someone who's not a parent.
The article disproves that. One of the prosecutors who pressed for a trial is a father.
Re: Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)
#6Of course it is. It's involuntary manslaughter (that's if you actually did forget, and didn't do it on purpose like some of those people). Punishable by up to 8 years in prison. Don't want to go to prison? Easy: don't leave your toddler alone in a locked car.
Re: Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)
#7I read somewhere that Tesla had an innovation to prevent this, but then couldn't Google it later. Did I dream that it can anyone else remember what I half-recall?
Re: Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)
#8Of course it is. It's involuntary manslaughter (that's if you actually did forget, and didn't do it on purpose like some of those people). Punishable by up to 8 years in prison. Don't want to go to prison? Easy: don't leave your toddler alone in a locked car.
That's exactly what this article shows: it's not easy. It only deceptively seems so.
Re: Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)
#9It actually is a misdemeanor in my state to leave a child unattended in a car if it's in public and there's risk of "hyperthermia, hypothermia, or dehydration."
I looked it up after a stranger hung out at my car to nag me for leaving my son (who refused to leave the car) for five minutes in a locked car in a safe neighborhood in 75f weather.
Re: Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)
#10Of course it is. It's involuntary manslaughter (that's if you actually did forget, and didn't do it on purpose like some of those people). Punishable by up to 8 years in prison. Don't want to go to prison? Easy: don't leave your toddler alone in a locked car.
That's exactly what this article shows: it's not easy. It only deceptively seems so.
I'm a parent, I don't need to read an article to be able to tell you it is easy. If you are with a kid, just take her with you or if you can't do so, don't bring your kid along. Billions of people manage just fine.