We don't know if he did in fact have a BM, though, and it isn't obvious that Harris got inside the car.
I'm not trying to be argumentative or petty here. I don't think a 22 month old's BM would be overpowering - especially if you have a toddler and would be relatively desensitized to it.
Who knows what his car smells like to begin with.
I know everyone says well he SHOULD have been able to know this, but I think it's quite possible that he didn't, "shoulds" aside.
From working in the "toddler room" as a teenager for several summers, and being a peds nurse 18+ years, I am pretty sure every single almost 2 yr old has a dirty diaper every single morning. Many of them showed up in the morning at daycare with a dirty diaper.
As a nurse just walking into the waiting room, I knew if someone was sitting in there in stinky pants.
From the time dad left the house and took the baby to Chik-Fila feeds him breakfast, puts baby back in the car and heads to work. (We know he didn't change him when he got to work...) chances are he was already soiled.
Unless he changed the boy at breakfast.
IMO dirty diaper is almost certain, but not 100%.
I am sure that they made note of it at the scene and at the autopsy. They will also know if the child was put in a fresh diaper after waking that morning. I am curious if the baby was dressed or still in his pj's.
We had many parents that brought the kids to daycare in their pj's and we would dress them after breakfast, but breakfast was at 7:00am.
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(My first time viewing an autopsy in nursing school was a 9 month old boy.)
It was noted approximately how long the diaper had been on the child prior to his death.
It was obvious that the baby I saw hadn't been changed for a very long time prior to his death.
Jmo and wondering about that baby's morning.
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