OK, this has NOTHING to do with real estate. It just *really* makes me ANGRY!!!!
About a month ago, I posted here saying:
(Tragically, there are people “usually kids“ that die every year when they are left in cars in the summer.)
And sure enough, it happened today…
The high today was 114 or 115, depending on the news source. Either way, that is insanely hot. If you’ve never experienced 115 degree heat, you can’t understand how hot it gets inside a car. It’s unbearable. And it gets hot enough to kill…
Toddler dies after being left in hot car; aunt arrested
(from KFYI.com)A 22-month-old girl died after being left in a car for about five hours on Tuesday morning. Phoenix police say the girl’s aunt drove the girl’s mother to work about 7 a.m., and put little Sara DeLaCruz in the back seat in a child car seat. Upon returning to her apartment near 34th Street and McDowell, 26-year-old Blanca Nuñez apparently forgot her niece was in the car, and didn’t realize it until shortly after noon. She brought the toddler into the apartment and called 911, but the little girl was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. Nuñez was arrested for negligent homicide.
How in the good Lord’s name can someone “forget” they have a baby in the car, and leave them there for five hours to roast???
Someone really ought to consider putting Ms. Nuñez in a car, and leaving her there until she’s well done. The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze. What a tragedy, and it will no doubt be repeated again this summer.
It makes me want to vomit.
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I completely agree. I could not imagine "forgetting" my children in the car. It's absolutely ridiculous that people would use that as an excuse. As far as I'm concerned there are other reasons that child was left in the car. My opinion is that if someone says they "forgot" it's because they were too bombed out of their gourde to realize what they were doing, which alone is pathetic enough to be driving around in that state of mind. But to subject a child to it as well is ridiculous.
As horrible a tragedy this may be, the aunt has to live with this misfortunate event for the rest of her life. Day in, Day out!
I have lived in Florida for most of my life, Phoenix for only 3. This kind of thing also happens there. And it mostly happens to family members of the child (aunt, grandparent, etc), or to a father who is only helping out for the day and agrees to take the child to daycare- a task they normally don't do and the mother put the child in the car.
So unless someone is left in the car intentionally, and how truly this event saddens ones heart, this person is already paying the price for their mistake. And I am sure jail time as well.
Heather –
I understand your point about the Aunt having to live with this for the rest of her life.
But at least she gets to live. The baby's life is over due to her *extreme* negligence.
I'm certain this wasn't an intentional act, but the fact is, the aunt accepted responsibility to take care of the child then forgot she was in the car, and didn't even THINK about the baby for FIVE HOURS. It's sickening,and I for one am GLAD she has to live with the thought of it forever. Her living with the thought of it is nothing compared to what baby Sara went through as she slowly cooked to death in that car.
"But she has to live with it for the rest of her life…."
I don't want to hear that crap. I'm sick of it. No, the BABY has to live with her mistake, and the parents of the baby have to live with her mistake. Only the baby can't live with her mistake because the baby's dead.
No excuse. NONE. My child was the focus of my every day routine and existence. I'm telling all of you here reading this–it is not possible to "forget" your child unless something is very very wrong with you and I'm sick of reading excuses in articles like these–short term memory only goes so far, the parent was overly stressed about work, a different routine….
BULL. These people didn't forget their keys or their cell phones, did they? Their children simply weren't their priority. It's a most effective way to get rid of an unwanted child. Call it an accident and put on the performance of your life. You won't be charged. It's a "tragic accident." THINK. This is deserving of a charge of child endangerment and negligent homicide in EVERY SINGLE CASE. I don't give a damn. You don't "forget" your child. You don't deserve to be walking around free if you do. Case closed and that is all.