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Admittedly, I am absolutely ENRAGED that these two babies cooked to death in a hot car while on Dad's watch. It is unconscionable when any child is overlooked and left in a car or van to suffer such a long HORRIBLE death. No, I don't and won't cut ANY slack for whomever is responsible. EVER. These children had NO choice. THEY have paid the ultimate price, no one else.
Interesting that we never hear about babies being left in cold cars more than 8 hours to freeze to death.
It happens. Not at all as much because summer child care routines are usually a change at the exact time that temps soar, but when it's super cold, it's usually at a time when routines aren't new - they've been established since the fall:
"[T]here are noted instances of a child dying during each calendar month. The most that ever happened in November were three in 2006; It happened one time each in December 2009 and 2012. The only recorded instance of a kid-left-in-the-car death in January was in 2016, when a Georgia grandmother purposely left her baby grandson in her vehicle for more than five hours while she visited with friends. The 13-month-old ultimately died of hypothermia in the car, which had been left in direct sunlight with the heat cranked up against the outside temperature of 53 degrees."
How Many Children Die In Cars In Winter Compared To Summer? It's A Year-Round Concern
I bet babies are naturally more awake too when they go from a warm house to a freezing outside and then car that needs time to warm up.