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An infant girl was found dead inside her grandmother's vehicle Friday evening after the grandmother thought she had dropped the child off at daycare earlier in the day, according to police.
The Luther Fire Department was called to Apple Creek Learning Center, 803 S. Birch St., in Luther at around 5:30 p.m. for a report of a child left in a vehicle. The four-month-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene.
Am sorry but this whole situation is just too suspect.
Grandmother "forgets" to drop off infant at daycare, didn't she bother to look in or at the backseat (where presumably the baby was strapped into its seat), not only during the time she drove to work but before getting out of the car?
If the car sat outdoors in hot weather with windows closed for an entire day and the baby was deceased, surely there would have been some sort of whiff inside car when grandmother opened the doors. Even if the child was still alive or whatever any living thing shut up inside a hot vehicle would leave some sort of smell.
So the grandmother again is back in the vehicle totally oblivious to the fact infant is dead in vehicle and drives to daycare to collect same.
Some of these stories make Miss Prism (the nanny from The Importance of Being Earnest), sound like Mother of the Year.
Am sorry but this whole situation is just too suspect.
Grandmother "forgets" to drop off infant at daycare, didn't she bother to look in or at the backseat (where presumably the baby was strapped into its seat), not only during the time she drove to work but before getting out of the car?
If the car sat outdoors in hot weather with windows closed for an entire day and the baby was deceased, surely there would have been some sort of whiff inside car when grandmother opened the doors. Even if the child was still alive or whatever any living thing shut up inside a hot vehicle would leave some sort of smell.
So the grandmother again is back in the vehicle totally oblivious to the fact infant is dead in vehicle and drives to daycare to collect same.
Some of these stories make Miss Prism (the nanny from The Importance of Being Earnest), sound like Mother of the Year.
So your version is that she calmly killed her grandchild and ice running through her veins, ignored the corps in the back to return to the day care to put on an act?
I believe being forgetful is more obvious. I don't have any reason the believe the body would be letting off an odor that would alert the grandmother either.
So your version is that she calmly killed her grandchild and ice running through her veins, ignored the corps in the back to return to the day care to put on an act?
I believe being forgetful is more obvious. I don't have any reason the believe the body would be letting off an odor that would alert the grandmother either.
But how do you forget to take a child, who's in your car, to daycare? She didn't forget to go at the end of the day to pick the child up. How do you put a child in your car, then forget where you're going with the child?
But how do you forget to take a child, who's in your car, to daycare? She didn't forget to go at the end of the day to pick the child up. How do you put a child in your car, then forget where you're going with the child?
Because that happens rather regularly. Read that now iconic Washington Post article about just this thing. People's minds wander, they think they've done something because they have a memory doing it yesterday and last week. Oftentimes it's something innocuous like putting on deodorant or closing the garage door, and sometimes it leads to tragedy like this.
Because that happens rather regularly. Read that now iconic Washington Post article about just this thing. People's minds wander, they think they've done something because they have a memory doing it yesterday and last week. Oftentimes it's something innocuous like putting on deodorant or closing the garage door, and sometimes it leads to tragedy like this.
That's incredibly sad. And the grandmother had sole custody of the child, the article said. It means the parents were unfit, which is even sadder. Or at least, she was able to prove in court they were unfit.
It sounds from the article like the parents arrived after police had arrived at the daycare, but they wouldn't allow them into the scene. There seem to be multiple tragedies, here.
People keep asking how could it happen, and it keeps happening. There are cases where it was abuse, neglect or even murder. But it is also accidental at times. This one sounds like an accident.
I don't know how old the grandmother is...but people do become more forgetful with age. Perhaps that was a factor?
We already know cell phones, rear facing car seats, large vehicles and air tight vehicles all contribute to some of these accidental deaths. Something really needs to be done to stop them with technology.
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.
I can see it happening if it is not part of a person's usual routine to drop off a child to school/daycare. I can't imagine being so negligent, myself. Car/car seat manufacturers need to come up with a sensor/alarm of some kind that addresses this issue.
I can see it happening if it is not part of a person's usual routine to drop off a child to school/daycare. I can't imagine being so negligent, myself. Car/car seat manufacturers need to come up with a sensor/alarm of some kind that addresses this issue.
Maybe. But she had sole custody of the child, so dropping the infant off was probably part of her daily routine. For some reason she spaced it out that day.
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