TN - Infant girl dies in hot car while father works - August 14th 2024

[Clearsky]

Tennessee child dies in hot car: Report says man forgot to drop infant off at babysitter's

Inattentiveness and miscommunication are the reasons an infant in Tennessee was left in a hot car by her father Monday, according to a police report.That report

newschannel9.com

The child's father, Timothy Paul Blackdeer, faces reckless homicide and aggravated child abuse or neglect charges.

 

[Palisades]

Tennessee child dies in hot car: Report says man forgot to drop infant off at babysitter's

Inattentiveness and miscommunication are the reasons an infant in Tennessee was left in a hot car by her father Monday, according to a police report.That report

newschannel9.com

The child's father, Timothy Paul Blackdeer, faces reckless homicide and aggravated child abuse or neglect charges.

[The mother]".. then received a text around 6:18 a.m. from the babysitter that only two children were dropped off. She advised she didn't think anything of it and [the child] may have stayed home with her 15-year-old and 12-year-old daughters. "

Yikes.

 

[borndem]

Oh, another car death. SMH. No words.

 

[Trublue21]

“Inattentiveness & miscommunication”…..sounds like weaponized incompetence to me! Lock him up and throw away the key!!

 

[ChatteringBirds]

IMO this one sounds like an accident. He somehow forgot to bring the baby into the sitter's home? I don't see anything indicating he purposely meant to leave her in the car, etc. He simply went to work and worked, thinking the kids were at the sitter's, as far as we can tell.

It's interesting their mother thought it was okay if she was left at home with the teenagers all day, without a plan or communication about that plan, in place.

I imagine they are all devastated...

 

[Charlot123]

IMO this one sounds like an accident. He somehow forgot to bring the baby into the sitter's home? I don't see anything indicating he purposely meant to leave her in the car, etc. He simply went to work and worked, thinking the kids were at the sitter's, as far as we can tell.

It's interesting their mother thought it was okay if she was left at home with the teenagers all day, without a plan or communication about that plan, in place.

I imagine they are all devastated...

It looks like two working parents raising 5 kids. One of them works manual job and the mother, I am not sure, but wakes up early. No prior history of leaving the kid in a car as the mother was not concerned. It is a more typical case of “forgotten baby syndrome”, imo. Both parents visibly upset.

 

[Palisades]

It looks like two working parents raising 5 kids. One of them works manual job and the mother, I am not sure, but wakes up early. No prior history of leaving the kid in a car as the mother was not concerned. It is a more typical case of “forgotten baby syndrome”, imo. Both parents visibly upset.

Both parents were up early. The father dropped the other kids at the babysitter around 6am. The babysitter called thr mother to report the baby was not dropped off. I wonder why the babysitter did not talk about the baby not being dropped off directly to the father.

The father said he went to the gas station at lunch with his boss and only got a beverage bevause working in the heat all day makes him not hungry. I suppose it could be drugs, but it sounds like two parents with little sleep scraping together childcare while working physically hard jobs.

 

[Rikissa]

Where in the car are the car seats for babies/infants usually placed, in the passenger seat, or in the back seat?

 

[Charlot123]

Both parents were up early. The father dropped the other kids at the babysitter around 6am. The babysitter called thr mother to report the baby was not dropped off. I wonder why the babysitter did not talk about the baby not being dropped off directly to the father.

The father said he went to the gas station at lunch with his boss and only got a beverage bevause working in the heat all day makes him not hungry. I suppose it could be drugs, but it sounds like two parents with little sleep scraping together childcare while working physically hard jobs.

It doesn’t look like “that” drug, judging by dad’s mugshot. I could assume, looking at dad, sleep apnea (short neck; could be undiagnosed given his age), some other sleep disorders, ADHD. Or any combination of these.

Many people lose appetite in hot weather.

It is a very typical situation, btw. Parents who may be not super organized by nature but trying to do the best for their kids and working hard. Usually the tipping point would be something unusual (one of two cars broke and hence, one parent’s plate gets too full that day). We had such a situation with a 24-year-old dad in Texas several years ago.

Another typical component I see in such situations is poor social and family support networks, but I can’t blame grandparents either as they may not be super organized themselves. But drugs usually are less involved in these situations than one might expect.

 

[abyquinn]

Where in the car are the car seats for babies/infants usually placed, in the passenger seat, or in the back seat?

Babies cannot be placed in the front seat bc airbags can kill them. Babies up to 2 years old are in the backseat facing the back, so with lots of car seats you can’t even see the baby from the front. We use a mirror so we can see the baby from the rear view mirror.

 

[Inthedetails]

IMO this one sounds like an accident. He somehow forgot to bring the baby into the sitter's home? I don't see anything indicating he purposely meant to leave her in the car, etc. He simply went to work and worked, thinking the kids were at the sitter's, as far as we can tell.

It's interesting their mother thought it was okay if she was left at home with the teenagers all day, without a plan or communication about that plan, in place.

I imagine they are all devastated...

I agree that it sounds like a tragic accident and the family likely feels absolutely devastated. So sorry to hear this happened again to a little one. jmo

 

[Rikissa]

Babies cannot be placed in the front seat bc airbags can kill them. Babies up to 2 years old are in the backseat facing the back, so with lots of car seats you can’t even see the baby from the front. We use a mirror so we can see the baby from the rear view mirror.

The airbag for the front passager seat can be deactivated (at a car service station), to allow a baby seat being placed there. It's common in Sweden to have a rearfacing baby seat in the front seat, especially if it's usually only one parent in the car at the time, during the first one or two years. The use of the rearfacing child seat is recommended to be used until the child is four or five years old. I've never had any problems being seated in the back seat if there is a baby seat in the front seat (even when it's empty), nor have I heard any complaints from others, when riding with a friend. Their child's security is of course their most important. I searched for how many children in Sweden who have died left in a car and could only find one case from 2013.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

The airbag for the front passager seat can be deactivated (at a car service station), to allow a baby seat being placed there

That's not the recommendation in the U.S., due to the back seat being safer than the front in an accident.

And IMO, families in the U.S. typically use their vehicles much more often than in Europe, resulting in both front seats being regularly needed for adults or older children.

I also think there are significant differences in temperatures. A lot of these fatalities occur in the U.S. states that reach scorching temperatures in the summers, temperatures not experienced in Sweden.

Americans also have much less vacation time and are more likely to drive to work during the hot summer months.
All JMO.

 

[pukasonqo2]

Tennessee child dies in hot car: Report says man forgot to drop infant off at babysitter's

Inattentiveness and miscommunication are the reasons an infant in Tennessee was left in a hot car by her father Monday, according to a police report.That report

newschannel9.com

The child's father, Timothy Paul Blackdeer, faces reckless homicide and aggravated child abuse or neglect charges.

Very different treatment to the one received by the father of Parker Scholtes

Arizona girl, 2, left in car by father on 109-degree day and is found dead #2

Seriously, his story isn't even credible. Who parks their car out in the summer sun with a child inside and leaves the AC on and the vehicle running for hours to keep from interrupting the child's nap? Wouldn't any reasonable parent pick the child up and bring them inside, rather than just let...

www.websleuths.com

 

[Inthedetails]

Very different treatment to the one received by the father of Parker Scholtes

Arizona girl, 2, left in car by father on 109-degree day and is found dead #2

Seriously, his story isn't even credible. Who parks their car out in the summer sun with a child inside and leaves the AC on and the vehicle running for hours to keep from interrupting the child's nap? Wouldn't any reasonable parent pick the child up and bring them inside, rather than just let...

www.websleuths.com

Different situations are treated differently.

jmo