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I should have read the story. I just don't want to believe someone would do that on purpose. What was/is so pressing in a day that a person could forget about a child in the back seat?
Not all do it on purpose, I say develop and put some sort of motion or pulse detector/seat alert in cars that prevents and/or alerts that there is a living- breathing organism still inside...child, animal.
It gives a unique beep when something with a heartbeat is still inside. Press the key fob again after checking inside, the car is now safely locked.
How about an audio alert like we used to have..."Your lights are on"?
"You locked you car with someone still in it"!
This would alert preoccupied drivers and potential witnesses that they were warned.
If somebody forgets, they are given a reminder, if they mess up, they are given a drug and alcohol test, check their bank accounts (or lack thereof), and their fidelity...saying goodbye to the past (kid) and starting anew with someone else and a potential new child.
No one is supposed to go on "cruise control" when a kid is involved.
You know the "ding" reminder you get if your vehicle is moving and either the driver or passenger is not wearing a seat belt? How hard would it be to have a similar "ding" to alert you when you turn off your engine that the seat belt for the carrier is in lock position? I guess people could become immune to that after awhile.
Until they come up with some sort of safety mechanism the best advice is to leave your purse, phone, or wallet in the backseat with the kid. Sad.
These people are as stupid as those who text while driving. All the information in the world won't smarten them up. Babies and the rest of us will continue to die at their hands because they are too stupid to learn.
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I wonder if anyone has ever arrived to park at work & then realized that the baby was still in the car?
If I had ever done that it would make my hair stand up on end thinking of the "what-if's"
I think that probably happens a LOT. It happened to a coworker of mine many years ago. She went to drop the baby off at a home daycare, and there was an obviously sick child in the home so my coworker decided to pick up some work from the office and do it at home. When she got to the office, we were having an emergency and she went into emergency mode and forgot about the baby until about an hour later. This was in August. Suddenly she shouted from her office "MY BABY!!!!!" and ran out of the building. Thankfully she had been lucky enough to park under a big shady oak tree and the baby was fine. But yeah. We ruefully refers to that as "the time I tried to kill my baby". Because . . . what could have been . . .
I think probably fairly often a daycare will call, or someone will walk by the car and see the screaming baby, or something will trigger a memory of not having dropped the baby off, and the baby is no worse for the wear and the parents have felt a cosmic warning.
Maybe it does happen in the winter, but since the baby is warm and dry in the car and the parent is mortified, we don't hear about it.
How warm and dry is the baby if the temp is running in the teens? I know my car parked in shelter overnight is pretty cold when I go to start it in the A.M. I surely wouldn't want to sit in it for eight hours in a parking lot.
All the warnings in the world won't sink in because everybody thinks "that couldn't possibly happen to me".
My dtr-in-law had two little girls and a new job. She showed up at work one morning and the older child piped up from the back seat, "What is this place?" This is an intelligent, responsible woman but this one day she was obviously distracted.
All's well that ends well but it could have ended badly.'
My youngest son left for school early in the day and frequently forgot his lights were on by the time he arrived for class. After the third time, I wrote a note and taped it to his steering wheel CHECK LIGHTS. It never happened again. Why not CHECK BABY?
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Because . . . what could have been . . . 
