View Full Version : Baby left in car story reaches new level of horrificness
My3sonsplus1
04-20-2010, 08:06 AM
http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=79749
7mo baby left for over 14 hours. Dad doesn't realize/"doesn't realize" until 2pm the next day. I've said it before I'll say it again I can wrap my brain around how the day time accidents happen with a sleep deprived parent and change in routine etc. happen, that given the exact "wrong" circumstances and with an older child I could see myself perhaps in that situation (though I like to think I would realize after a very short amount of time)- but these hours included breakfast and lunch for the parent(s) and 2yo at least 2 feeds for the baby, several diaper changes... how do you not notice you don't have your child from the time you wake up until 2pm. Surely this family is not so "strangers in the night" that the parents aren't not seeing each other in the house or live in such a set up that it is normal for a mother to not run into her child even if dad is caring for her in the morning and visversa when you are in the same house. This I cannot wrap my mind around.
Jackie1021
04-20-2010, 08:15 AM
That is horrible. How can you not know that you left the baby in the car. I just can't understand that. Especially going all night. Even if you thought the other one had her. How could you go until 2pm don't you get up for breakfast.
CrystalD
04-20-2010, 08:30 AM
So sad!
Maritza
04-20-2010, 08:30 AM
This is so sad and it makes me very mad:steam
So it was 11:30pm and that's when the parents arrived home with the baby and each parent thought the other had taken the baby out of the car seat. I don't buy that, that's BS....They must have been under the influence of alcohol or some kind of illicit drugs in orther to "forget" their baby infant in their card all night. I can't believe that neither of them check if the baby was ok at night or in the morning. Also, most babies don't sleep through the night at 7months. So I don't buy this BS.
There's no freaking excuse for this to happen!!! Those parents deserve to go to jail for murder!
:rant
This is so sad and it makes me very mad:steam
So it was 11:30pm and that's when the parents arrived home with the baby and each parent thought the other had taken the baby out of the car seat. I don't buy that, that's BS....They must have been under the influence of alcohol or some kind of illicit drugs in orther to "forget" their baby infant in their card all night. I can't believe that neither of them check if the baby was ok at night or in the morning. Also, most babies don't sleep through the night at 7months. So I don't buy this BS.
There's no freaking excuse for this to happen!!! Those parents deserve to go to jail for murder!
:rant
:yeah Even now I check on my big kids before I go to bed, and when they were babies I was always worried about them when they were sleeping. I don't buy their story at all.
Lorah
04-20-2010, 08:40 AM
:yeah Even now I check on my big kids before I go to bed, and when they were babies I was always worried about them when they were sleeping. I don't buy their story at all.
:yeah
And I do it many times before I go to bed, and then when I go to bed, and if I get up to pee..... Seriously, how in the world?!?!?!
Hudsonsmom
04-20-2010, 08:50 AM
Drugs or booze. Makes me sick.
surmick
04-20-2010, 09:01 AM
I have to turn the radio off every time the story comes on.
My3sonsplus1
04-20-2010, 09:03 AM
Drugs or booze. Makes me sick.
I am sure your right but even still... I guess my kids are such earlier risers that I can't fathom all this time passing. My kids' days are 2/3rd over by 2pm. I've fed Caleb at least three times by then if not a dozen and even in my more flakey moments he will have had a couple diaper changes. And babies don't let you forget about them, they cry and scream to wake you, and I guess that was the issue- baby was not in the house to wake them from their state of unwareness to care for their basic needs...
lornabrown
04-20-2010, 09:05 AM
11:30 is not even that late. Even if the baby was a good sleeper, the parents should have realized that it was the two of them and nobody had the baby.
So sad that some people can't get pregnant and then there are idiots like this. Clearly they were meant for each other.
momtoM&D
04-20-2010, 09:08 AM
At the very least these people should go to jail for neglect. And if they were that drunk that they couldn't wake up and realize their baby was crying (or their 2yo was hungry since I guess they couldn't hear the baby), they were most likely driving home drunk. Disgusting!
brookiesmom
04-20-2010, 09:34 AM
This is so sad makes me so upset thinking about it. I couldnt imagine not knowing where Brooklyn is.
KeirasMommy
04-20-2010, 10:55 AM
These stories make me sick to my stomach...every time I hear a tragic story I just picture my baby and how helpless she is at this age and it kills me... I swear I am going to have to stop watching the news...being in law enforcement I already worry about everything it consumes my thoughts sometimes. I can't comprehend how someone can sleep all those hours, wake up, go to the gym...and not even think..hmmmm my baby (a light sleeper) hasn't made a peep... I just don't understand.
Maritza
04-20-2010, 11:00 AM
11:30 is not even that late. Even if the baby was a good sleeper, the parents should have realized that it was the two of them and nobody had the baby.
So sad that some people can't get pregnant and then there are idiots like this. Clearly they were meant for each other.
I couldn't agree more with this;)
Debbie_P
04-20-2010, 12:43 PM
This is just awful...The thought of that baby mostly likely screaming for someone...anyone to help is more than I can even think about...poor, poor baby...The parents deserve jail time at the very least...they should not be allowed to reproduce ever again!!!! :(
Colleen&Kail
04-20-2010, 01:00 PM
so sad!
i cant even imagine!
MamaLaura
04-20-2010, 05:57 PM
I can see how they could think the other parent brought the baby in and put it to bed. And I can see how they might not check the kid at night. I really didn't ever "check" on mine. If they needed me, fine, if they didn't I left it alone. But to not check in the morning when the kid hasn't woken up to eat or have a diaper change? THAT I don't get. I can see how you might not see the kid in the backseat, if you have an infant seat with the shade thing covering it. It's just the morning/afternoon hours prior to the gym that baffle me. Makes me wonder if something else happened to the baby that night/in the morning and they're trying to cover it up.
MamaLaura
04-20-2010, 06:00 PM
This is just awful...The thought of that baby mostly likely screaming for someone...anyone to help is more than I can even think about...poor, poor baby...The parents deserve jail time at the very least...they should not be allowed to reproduce ever again!!!! :(
:yeah
becky
04-21-2010, 01:09 AM
I can see how they could think the other parent brought the baby in and put it to bed. And I can see how they might not check the kid at night. I really didn't ever "check" on mine. If they needed me, fine, if they didn't I left it alone. But to not check in the morning when the kid hasn't woken up to eat or have a diaper change? THAT I don't get. I can see how you might not see the kid in the backseat, if you have an infant seat with the shade thing covering it. It's just the morning/afternoon hours prior to the gym that baffle me. Makes me wonder if something else happened to the baby that night/in the morning and they're trying to cover it up.
:yeah If their baby was such a light sleeper then as I parent I can't imagine how she would not have woken up at some point in the night especially at that age. I have a light sleeper and she wake up at the slightest noise even with the door closed. I just don't understand how a parent could not check on their baby at least once in the middle of the night or first thing in the morning if they had not heard a peep. Even if just a little peak into the bed room to make sure everything is ok. This whole story is upsetting and I feel so bad for the baby
tdonoho
04-21-2010, 05:20 AM
Makes me wonder if something else happened to the baby that night/in the morning and they're trying to cover it up.
I wonder this as well. I never check on my kids in the middle of the night. I'm too afraid I'll wake them up. But I do have an AngelCare monitor on my littlest that chirps every time he moves/breathes. I often stand outside his door and listen for the chirp.
I also check on the kids if they haven't woken up by their normal wake up time.
I tend to think there is a lot more to this story than we've heard. I can't imagine going all day and not noticing that your chid was missing until you finally see her in the back of your car after working out at the gym.
Trish
MamaLaura
04-21-2010, 08:00 AM
I wonder this as well. I never check on my kids in the middle of the night. I'm too afraid I'll wake them up. But I do have an AngelCare monitor on my littlest that chirps every time he moves/breathes. I often stand outside his door and listen for the chirp.
I also check on the kids if they haven't woken up by their normal wake up time.
I tend to think there is a lot more to this story than we've heard. I can't imagine going all day and not noticing that your chid was missing until you finally see her in the back of your car after working out at the gym.
Trish
:yeah