FL - Fendra Molme, 11 months, dies in hot car while parents attend church, Palm Bay, May 2023 *arrest*

[IceIce9]

I was sitting in my vehicle today with my windows closed and the air conditioner running, working on my laptop while I waited for my lunch order at a restaurant.

A women knocked on my window and pointed out a dog locked in a vehicle with the windows closed. She told me she heard the dog barking, looked in the vehicle and saw him moving from one side to the other like he was trying to get out.

She called 911 and a police car pulled up in less than two minutes. An officer jumped out, said, “I’ll get him out” and had the door open and the dog out and in his arms in about 20 seconds.

The officer told us, “I love dogs and hate people who do this.”

 

[GoBuckeyes]

Her parking in a different spot it very odd, especially since it has been said it is a more shady spot.

IMO, she parked in the shade on purpose and left the sleeping baby. MOO

If one is late, it stands to reason that the usual spot is not available.

 

[TxLady2]

To me, it doesn't matter where she parked. I am more concerned about her presumption that a church member got the baby out. Is it always the same member? Is this a regular thing?
IMO, if she walked around to get something from the back of the car, and then around the car to open front passenger door, she would have had a full view of the baby in the car seat at some point, right? How do you miscalculate how many kids are walking into the church? I am guessing that the baby may be able to walk, but if not, would the 2 older kids just leave that one and take the 2 yo without telling mom "hey...the baby is still in the car." Why would she not just glance in the car before she left it and make SURE that all the children were accounted for? I don't get this.... at all.

 

[Dpdan]

Palm Bay mother charged with lesser offense in baby’s hot-car death

After eight months of reviewing the case of a baby who died in a car while her mother led a church service, the state attorney's office will prosecute Bulaine Molme on a charge of leaving a child alone in a car with bodily harm.

www.clickorlando.com

After eight months of reviewing the case of a baby who died in a car while her mother led a church service, the state attorney’s office will prosecute Bulaine Molme on a charge of leaving a child alone in a car with bodily harm.

The third-degree felony is a downgrade from the first-degree felony Molme faced (as recommended by police when arrested last May) of aggravated manslaughter of a child.

 

[Dpdan]

Florida pastor pleads no contest in baby’s hot car death at church

A Brevard County pastor charged in the death of her baby found in a hot car will stay out of jail after pleading no contest to the charges on Wednesday.

www.clickorlando.com

Molme received two years of probation, and will have to install an emergency alert system in her car any time she is driving with children under the age of six.

 

[MissMalowe]

Molme received two years of probation, and will have to install an emergency alert system in her car any time she is driving with children under the age of sisix.tha5 al

That alert system isn't permanently installed/in place? The expectation is that she will have to remember to "install this any time she is driving with children?!" How is someone who forgot an entire baby in the car going to remember to install the emergency alert system EACH time someone under 6 is riding with her?

 

[Cedars]

To me, it doesn't matter where she parked. I am more concerned about her presumption that a church member got the baby out. Is it always the same member? Is this a regular thing?
IMO, if she walked around to get something from the back of the car, and then around the car to open front passenger door, she would have had a full view of the baby in the car seat at some point, right? How do you miscalculate how many kids are walking into the church? I am guessing that the baby may be able to walk, but if not, would the 2 older kids just leave that one and take the 2 yo without telling mom "hey...the baby is still in the car." Why would she not just glance in the car before she left it and make SURE that all the children were accounted for? I don't get this.... at all.

This is just a theory of mine, but I believe the 'churchgoer' was one of her other children - probably the eldest girl, as that's typical in many large families.

JMO