People Like This Guy Need To Be SHOT
I don't care how fucking late you are for a train, there is NO EXCUSE for leaving your infant child in your car! The ONLY reason this turned out okay is because it's not the middle of summer.
Paltry punishment. Have our jobs become SOOOOO GODDAMN IMPORTANT that we would forget that a small child is in the backseat of our car? Can you imagine being the person who noticed her there - strapped into her seat, inside a locked car, with no parent around? I'd have a heart attack! I don't know if I'd be able to wait for the cops before breaking a window.
Fucking idiot. I hope his wife divorces him and takes all his money. Then he can be left with nothing but his all-consuming job.
Commuters racing to catch the train typically forget things in the car -- keys, wallets, briefcases. But a baby daughter?...
"Dad forgot baby was in the car, parked the car, got on the Metro," said Lucille Baur, a spokeswoman for the Montgomery County, Maryland, Police Department...
[Jonathan] Sander, described as "terrified, embarrassed," was charged with leaving a child under 8 unattended in a car or building. He could face a fine of up to $500 and 30 days in jail.
Paltry punishment. Have our jobs become SOOOOO GODDAMN IMPORTANT that we would forget that a small child is in the backseat of our car? Can you imagine being the person who noticed her there - strapped into her seat, inside a locked car, with no parent around? I'd have a heart attack! I don't know if I'd be able to wait for the cops before breaking a window.
Fucking idiot. I hope his wife divorces him and takes all his money. Then he can be left with nothing but his all-consuming job.
by MG at 10:07 PM
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Something similar happened at San Francisco State University.
A professor, Dr. Antwi Akom went to his office at 10:00 pm after the university was closed. He got into a confrontation with a security guard and a police officer and was arrested.
Unfortunately, when Dr. Akom went to his office, he left his two small children unattended in his car. This information can be referenced here:
http://justice4akom.com/index.php?s=6&n=5
I am not sure of the age of the children involved. Nonetheless, leaving children unattended at night sounds like a really bad idea.
FYI, the SFSU commissioned former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown and former District Attorney Louise Renee to investigate the incident. A summary of their findings can be read here:
http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/announce/Cover_Letter.pdf
The full report (it is lengthy) can be read here:
http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/announce/INVESTIGATION_REPORT1.pdf
Unfortunately this happens all the time. A few years back there was a NASA engineer who left his infant son in his SUV for 8 hours and he died, he wasn't even charged with anything.
...NASA Langley engineer Kevin Shelton left his son in back of his Ford Explorer for almost eight hours while he went to work on May 18, 2000.
Nine-month-old Benjamin was pronounced dead after Shelton found the boy and rushed him to an emergency clinic. An autopsy revealed that the child died of hyperthermia, an overheating of the body.
Prosecutors opted not to charge Shelton, saying he wasn't "consciously aware" he left the boy in the vehicle....
This was a big deal at the same time because a single dad who was taking his son to work with him because he couldn't afford a babysitter in Richmond VA died in the seat next to him because it was too hot & the work van didn't have AC. He didn't leave his son unnattended except for a few minutes at a time to deliver flowers to a door or office. He was charged and found guilty (I couldn't find a link to that, but googling it found many similar stories).
In every case they at least charge the parent for leaving a kid in a car, even in cases where the child doesn't die, but in VA I guess they don't if you make more than 100K a year.
If you think forgetting your kid in the car is bad, how about on top of the car..
HEADLINE: Infant boy survives ride on car's roof
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - A 3-month-old boy fell from the roof of his father's moving car, but landed upright and uninjured in his portable car seat, authorities said.
The infant, Matthew Murray, rode on the roof for more than a kilometre Sunday before the car seat flew off and landed in front of the car behind. Motorist James Boothby stopped, dashed over and picked up the seat.
"At first, I thought it must be a doll, but when it landed I could see it was a baby," Boothby said. "I got out and the little thing was just laying there looking up at me."...
The Toronto Star, May 12, 1992, Tuesday, AM, NEWS; Pg. A24, 139 words, AP, WORCESTER, Mass.
HEADLINE: Driver Forgot the Baby on the Roof
A 2-month-old boy whose mother accidentally left him on top of her car fell off after the woman drove away, tumbling face down blocks later into a busy intersection.
The infant, who was strapped in a car seat, suffered some cuts and scrapes but was not severely injured.
The outcome could have been much different if truck driver Michael Prough had not noticed a car seat and baby blanket in the middle of the road and stopped to pick up the baby.
Police said no charges would be filed against the infant's 24-year-old mother. She apparently left the baby on the top of the car Friday afternoon where she had put it while getting her 6-year-old and 4-year-old into the vehicle.
She traveled about two blocks before the baby slid off, but she drove another five miles before she realized what had happened, police said.
The Washington Post, December 22, 1997, Monday, Final Edition, A SECTION; Pg. A06; AROUND THE NATION, 140 words, TINLEY PARK, Ill.
HEADLINE: Baby boy is injured in fall from car roof
TAMPA - A 1-month-old baby boy was injured Tuesday when his parents accidentally drove away while he lay, tucked in his car seat, on the roof of their car. Police said that Darren Hayes Jr. fell onto the street as his parents pulled away from their home in the Keba Mobile Home Park, 4943 E Hillsborough Ave., at 11:10 a.m. He was listed in fair and stable condition Tuesday night at Tampa General Hospital.
Darren Hayes Sr. and his wife Nichole were loading the baby, two older children and other items into their 1979 Dodge sedan, and each thought the other had packed Darren Jr. in the car, said Sgt. Russell Bevan of the Tampa Police Department. Police cited Darren Sr. for failing to immediately report a traffic accident and allowing someone to ride on the outside of the car. Bevan said he did not know when the accident was reported.
St. Petersburg Times (Florida), April 20, 1988, Wednesday, City Edition, METRO AND STATE; sunrise digest; Pg. 1B, 159 words, TAMPA
(I can't leave a link to these because I used lexis nexis to dig them up)
The Worcester, MA one & a few others is mentioned here though...
http://www.snopes.com/autos/mishaps/babyroof.asp
The entire justice system should be shot!
As other responders noted, this happens all the time with wildly different results depending on the social or ethnic status of the negligent parent.
MORE important than punishing bad parents is punishing ALL bad parents, EQUALLY and FAIRLY
The entire justice system should be shot!
As other responders noted, this happens all the time with wildly different results depending on the social or ethnic status of the negligent parent.
MORE important than punishing bad parents is punishing ALL bad parents, EQUALLY and FAIRLY
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