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Boxing Day Sales and priorities

azureline** — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:00:56 GMT

Mum leaves baby alone in car while she hit the Boxing Day sales

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/mum-leaves-baby-alone-in-car-while-she-hit-the-boxing-day-sales/story-fni0fee2-1226790129665

A DEADBEAT mum left her baby alone in a car while she shopped for bargains at the Boxing Day sales.

Police said they expect to charge the 27-year-old woman with leaving a child unattended after leaving the 17-month-old boy alone for an hour and a half.

Officers said they were "left aghast" by the incident at Westfield Doncaster shopping complex.

I wonder how she justified that?

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*pepe — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:03:19 GMT

there is no way to justify it.

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azureline** — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:05:05 GMT

I hope she is a candidate for the dysfunctional family adoption plan.

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*pepe — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:06:45 GMT

i hope she gets hit by a bus.

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purple_haize — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:08:31 GMT

There is no way to justify what she did, to the little baby.

Also a L plater without supervision..................totally selfish on her part, hope she gets what she deserves, particularly for the child.

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nevynreally — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:09:47 GMT

Nasty.

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*pepe — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:12:35 GMT

as opposed to willfully leaving a helpless child in a hot car where it no doubt suffered and would have suffered more had it not been found by strangers who luckily weren't the type to kidnap and harm children?

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azureline** — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:13:49 GMT

I am thinking that the 2 things combined are a good example of someone who does not have the intelligence, or common sense required, to be in charge of a baby or a car.

Yes. nasty mother alright!

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nevynreally — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:16:02 GMT

@*pepe wrote:
as opposed to willfully leaving a helpless child in a hot car where it no doubt suffered and would have suffered more had it not been found by strangers who luckily weren't the type to kidnap and harm children?

Oh, **bleep**! My response was to the story..I am so sorry it came of your post.

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izabsmiling — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:17:37 GMT

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@azureline** wrote:
I am thinking that the 2 things combined are a good example of someone who does not have the intelligence, or common sense required, to be in charge of a baby or a car.
Yes. nasty mother alright!

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I don't know her.I'm very glad that her baby is OK .

Boy dies inside car after dad's memory lapse

VICTORIA LAURIE
THE AUSTRALIAN
OCTOBER 04, 2013

A Pulitzer Prize-winning 2009 article in the Washington Post examined cases of what it called "fatal distraction", in which an "otherwise loving and attentive parent" can forget a child is in the car. It outlined the case of 49-year-old father and businessman Miles Harrison who -- preoccupied by problems at work -- forgot to drop his toddler son at daycare. The boy remained strapped into a car seat for nearly nine hours, after Harrison parked the car in an office parking lot on a hot July day.

The child died.

The article reported that 15 to 25 such events occurred in the US each year. Memory expert David Diamond, from the University of South Tampa, told the newspaper that the quality of prior parental care was irrelevant. It was more likely that stress had affected parents' brain function and memory. "The important factors that keep showing up involve a combination of stress, emotion, lack of sleep and change in routine," he said.

A small number of homicide cases involving children left in cars in Australia have usually been caused by a parent's deliberate decision to leave the child in their car for a period.

In July, Bendigo mother Jayde Pool was charged with manslaughter and conduct endangering life after the death of her six-month-old daughter, when she allegedly forgot to take the child from the back seat.

The 28-year-old said she had driven to the shop with her six-year-old son and baby daughter to buy takeaway food. Returning home, she and her son had gone inside, but she said she forgot to remove her baby daughter until 2 1/2 hours later.

A court hearing was told in July the temperature had averaged 30C in the car interior before Ms Poole retrieved her daughter. The baby died later. Police said there was no suspicion that she was affected by drugs or alcohol on the day. A committal hearing is set down for December.http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/boy-dies-inside-car-after-dads-memory-lapse/story-e6frg6nf-1226732566622

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spotweldersfriend — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:34:25 GMT

Rampant consumerism.Isn't it wonderful?

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azureline** — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:45:54 GMT

She didn't forget though, she deliberately left him in the car and I am sure she knew she had no licenced driver with her, as well.

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nevynreally — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:47:04 GMT

@izabsmiling wrote:
I don't know her.I'm very glad that her baby is OK .

Your C & P's are irrelevant. She didn't forget her child was in the car, she left him in it, so she could shop.

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nevynreally — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:49:37 GMT

azuriline, can we please not do that again?

Freaks me out.

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cherry*135 — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:50:16 GMT

That is bad.

I think people who DO take their babies with them to Boxing Day sales are careless as well. I saw a few today.

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izabsmiling — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:03:35 GMT

@azureline** wrote:
She didn't forget though, she deliberately left him in the car and I am sure she knew she had no licenced driver with her, as well.

Sorry I didn't see if she did it deliberately or not in this ;

"Investigators have been told that a woman drove to attend the sales at the shopping complex on Doncaster Rd with a 17-month-old boy at about 9.30am," Senior Constable Adam West said.

"She parked the car in an undercover car park and attended the centre alone.

"Security were notified of the unattended child by a passer-by at about 10am.

"They made numerous attempts to locate the owner of the car but were unsuccessful.

"Security removed the child and took him to their office where they were met by police," he added.

if security just removed the child ...was the car unlocked ?

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acacia_pycnantha — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:07:48 GMT

Was it a sports car, with the roof down?

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nevynreally — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:08:05 GMT

Missed the bits that stated she was a learner driver without any licensed driver with her. Whoops, guess she forgot about that too.

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azureline** — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:09:18 GMT

Security could not find the woman, so removed the child and took him to the shopping centre office, where they were met by police. It is not clear whether the car was unlocked or security had to force their way in.

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acacia_pycnantha — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:11:19 GMT

it's amazing what some people will forget whilst in pursuit of a "bargain".

Some people might think they got a bargain by waiting until their feet were severely crippled by bad shoes, all in order to save $50 or so when buying new ones.