I want to know this as well.
Respectfully snipped and bolded by me. I think you misunderstand some of our sentiments.
It's not that we don't believe it could happen, it COULD Happen. You know what else could happen?
A child finds a key and sticks it into an electrical socket and electrocutes themselves.
A child walks out the front door of their home and wanders into traffic and gets hit by a car
A child tips head first into a toilet and drowns
A child falls down a flight of stairs and breaks his neck
A child gets into medicine left out and over doses on drugs
A child gets into cleaning supplies and dies from drinking bleach
A child tries to pull on the television set and topples the entire thing onto themselves
A child stumbles and falls into an opened dishwasher door and impales themselves on knives
A child walks up to the stove and pulls a pot of boiling water onto themselves and suffers third degree burns
Any number of these things could ALSO happen. But when they do we hold the parent entirely responsible for not watching their child.
When you STRAP A CHILD INTO A CAR SEAT you have an extra level of responsibility. This is not a child getting out of sight for a few minutes and an accident happening. You are physically restraining the child behind you in the car. What kind of sick parent doesn't take that responsibility seriously? There is absolutely no way for the child to survive this, bar a random stranger breaking the windows on a car.
No I don't have sympathy for a parent that puts their child in a situation where they are completely at the mercy of the simple memory of the parent and then the parent forgets them. I do not have sympathy for a parent who forgets a frickin' HUMAN BEING in the car. Especially when they probably didn't forget the cell phone.
What kind of human depravity have we reduced our parents to that the bare minimum of remembering your responsibility to your own child, is excused with sympathy? I seriously do not understand this way of thinking.
The bare minimum for a parent is remembering your child. We've lowered the bar so much, that the fact that this poor child was horrifically baked alive in a car, pales in comparison to the discomfort that some people feel because they slack off when taking care of their children. It's shocking to me. All parents who do this should be prosecuted.
This very case demonstrates why. There are people making excuses because they feel insecure about it possibly happening to them. IF that becomes the baseline of the evaluation of responsibility of a parent, children are at a loss.
Waking up late is NOT the same thing as abandoning a child to be baked alive for hours. Just remember the poor little girl who ripped out all her hair before she died in a situation like this. It is inexcusable.
