Once again we find the news reporting stories about little kids being left in closed up cars. There were two new ones on the news today. A couple of tourists left their little child in a car in a Wal-Mart parking lot, where she was found and rescued, and will be just fine, and they were arrested. Another story of a City employee who left her baby in the car while she went to work, and then remembered at lunch time that the kid was in the car, and ran down to the car, and found the kid dead. Unbelievably, she was NOT arrested.
This begs the question, how do you forget your child? The woman who left her kid in the car at City Hall said that her husband usually took the kid to daycare, but he was out of town, so she loaded the kid in the car, drove to work, instead of daycare, and went inside, completely forgetting her baby in the car dying.
I can understand driving to work by mistake, but how could you possibly explain forgetting that the kid was in the car? I mean, honestly, how brain dead would you have to be not to realize that you left a child in the car. OK, so yesterday, I got some Ice Cream at the store, got some gas on the way home, and then started inside without the ice cream, but remembered to go back for it before I got inside. But come on, a kid is not ice cream. You can forget groceries for a little while, but who forgets the kids, and certainly, who forgets the kid for 4 hours? Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is outrageous.
And why didn't they arrest this woman? They said that they may just rule it an accident! WHAT!!?! As in she was accidentally too stupid to remember that her baby was in the car? And if it was a accident in this case, why not in the other case, you know, the one in which the kid is going to be just fine?
Crazy stuff I tell you, crazy stuff.
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The only comfort to be found in this story is that Jesus takes care of the little ones.
I agree with you, Matt. How can someone forget their child is in the car? This is another piece of evidence that human life has so little value to most people. This child was that person's most valuable treasure, and they sacrificed it to the "god of being too busy" or the "god of work" or whatever their god is.......
jb
I so have to agree. This is AMAZINGLY crazy. It makes a great case for forced sterilization. Anyone that stupid should NEVER be allowed to reproduce. It's sad to think that now even already born babies lives have as little value in this country now as the unborn do. Makes me want to scream!
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