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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
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-e6frg6...
