Lovejac
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thank you for finding this. I wanted to see a picture of this baby, he was so cute. So very sad.
the one factor in all of these cases is "something was different in the routine that morning."
From what the cousin said...the mother thought someone..a relative...was taking the baby home with them because the baby had a fever and a daycare won't take babies with a fever. If this is true...someone else could have thought they were helping the mother as she was running late and so they put the baby in the mother's car not knowing other arrangements had been made and probably not knowing the baby couldn't go to daycare that day.
The relative would have thought that the mother changed her mind and was taking the baby somewhere else and didn't give it another thought. If the baby was asleep when he was put in the car and he slept from Everett to Lynnwood she probably wouldn't have known he was in the car as she wasn't expecting him to be there. As she was running late she probably parked her car...grabbed her purse, etc, and ran for the building. She wouldn't have checked on the baby in the car because she didn't know he was there.
When she left work someone had already called 911 and that is when she discovered the baby was in the car.
That would make sense to me if that is what happened. I really doubt that she took him to work with her and then forgot he was in the car. If that were the case she would have gone out and opened the windows of the car, changed him and fed him.
It sounds like a horrible accident. It could happen to any of us no matter how careful we are. The unthinkable could happen. It has to be a terrible thing to live with for the rest of a person's life.
I wish someone would invent a bell like the seatbelts have when they aren't on a person only this bell would alert a person if the adult unbuckles their seatbelt but the baby is still in the carseat. That could save a lot of little lives.
Well she signed into myspace yesterday. I have no comment at this time about the death of this baby, because nothing that I could possibly say would be nice.
I'll be the first to admit it. I once accidentally nearly left my daughter in the car when I went to work. I dropped my son off at school which I never did and drove on to work. If it hadn't been for always setting my purse on the floor beneath the carseat I would have left her there in the sun all day because I never went out to my car for lunch. The thought that that could have been me makes my heart hurt.
So I second the above hint to leave always put your purse or briefcase in the back seat area behind you. You have to set it down to load the baby in the seat anyway. And leaving it there makes it harder for someone to reach into the window or open your car door and snatch your purse which has been known to happen.
Of course this is null and void if she left the baby there on purpose while she worked because daycare wouldn't take him. That would have been infinately stupid.
From what the cousin said...the mother thought someone..a relative...was taking the baby home with them because the baby had a fever and a daycare won't take babies with a fever. If this is true...someone else could have thought they were helping the mother as she was running late and so they put the baby in the mother's car not knowing other arrangements had been made and probably not knowing the baby couldn't go to daycare that day.
The relative would have thought that the mother changed her mind and was taking the baby somewhere else and didn't give it another thought. If the baby was asleep when he was put in the car and he slept from Everett to Lynnwood she probably wouldn't have known he was in the car as she wasn't expecting him to be there. As she was running late she probably parked her car...grabbed her purse, etc, and ran for the building. She wouldn't have checked on the baby in the car because she didn't know he was there.
When she left work someone had already called 911 and that is when she discovered the baby was in the car.
That would make sense to me if that is what happened. I really doubt that she took him to work with her and then forgot he was in the car. If that were the case she would have gone out and opened the windows of the car, changed him and fed him.
It sounds like a horrible accident. It could happen to any of us no matter how careful we are. The unthinkable could happen. It has to be a terrible thing to live with for the rest of a person's life.
I wish someone would invent a bell like the seatbelts have when they aren't on a person only this bell would alert a person if the adult unbuckles their seatbelt but the baby is still in the carseat. That could save a lot of little lives.
OMG! I just noticed I put in the wrong link on this thread!!
I meant to put in a link to the newspaper article about this.
I acccidently put in the picture my daughter sent me from tokyo showing the beer fridge at the store empty because of the local concert. Just as a "isn't that so funny".
Sorry!! (obviously my first thread huh!?!)
This link is from an article yesterday. http://www.enterprisenewspapers.com/article/20090409/NEWS01/704099850/0/ETPZONELT
The article says the mother left him in the car.
This is so sad.
Thank's Boyz Mum, after reading that, I wonder if someone was suppose to come to her work and pick him up?
Not making excuses, of course, because he shouldn't have been alone in that car for even a second, just trying to understand.
Don't be hard on yourself, I appreciate you bringing the story here.:blowkiss:
Well still not letting this Mom off. If your child was sick with fever and a family member was caring for him wouldn't you check on him?