Another Cincinnati child dies in hot car, left by mother....

[Miss Mary]

The latest:

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... /1055/NEWS

As I predicted, our local forums are just a reflection of the opinions on this topic. Locally, Cincinnnatians are all over the place - some say it was a tragic accident, the mother has another child, don't prosecute, others say to fry her, others say she needs to be charged with something (where I fall). Just 2 years ago we had a horrific child death come to light - a special needs 3 year old foster child was bound and tied with plastic packing tape, then wrapped mummy-like tight and put into a playpen, inside a walk in closet, on a 90+ day/weekend, but the foster parents gave him a fan. They went out of town to a FAMILY reunion with other non-special needs children but didn't want to take this hard to handle child. He was gone when they got back and then concocted a wild story he was abducted from a local park, etc. Long story short, that foster couple have been tried and serving prison terms - the foster mother 54 years, the foster father, 16. Both were revealed to everyone as money hungry, terrible people. So I don't think anyone in my town wants this educated, seemingly loving mother put next to the Carroll foster mother but I would like to see some sort of charge. And community service, at the very least.

The educated asst. principal who did almost the same exact thing last August (on this very date in fact), got off without any charge. People were in an uproar. We're all waiting to see how this newest child death case goes. I don't envy our pros. for the position he's in. He went after the foster couple (Liz and David Carroll) with everything he could pin on them and this town supported him 150%. This time, it's really hard to say if he'll charge the mother or not.

One line bothers me in the above article - the mother wishes her childcare provider had called her to ask where the child was!

Now this personal opinion is going to upset some of you here but I just have to say it. I personally believe that some full time working parents relegate more responsibility to child care providers than they should. This newest mother wonders WHY the babysitter never called her! That is IMHO messed up thinking. The MOTHER and FATHER are ultimately responsible for these children. Not a day care provider that sees them for only 8 to 10 hours a day. I have to wonder that if some of these working parents are so used to turning over any responsibility to these daycare providers that they also can turn it off the remainder of each day. The article also states that this mother dropped the older child off to pre-school, taking the baby with her when she took him in. From there, she just proceeded to work. And forgot about the baby.

Sees that's the word that disturbs so many of us - forgot!

You can forget to buy milk or bread at the store, but I still cannot imagine ever forgetting you have a child (or pet!) in the backseat that you are responsible for!

What a sad case, once again. This makes 3 years in a row for this time of year for my city - we have started off each new school year with a child's death (1. foster child Marcus Fiesel, 2. Cecelia Slaby and now 3. Jenna Edwards). It all just breaks your heart. And each year my city watched local media outlets for updates and court hearings, etc. to see how the newest tragic death would play out.

There's a wikipedia page for Marcus now, I'm sure some of you remember me posting about his tragic case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Fiesel

[O Town]

While I don't understand as others have said how you can forget your child in a car, I do believe that most of these are truly accidental. Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to come up with some sort of alarm, reminder if you start out of your car with child still in their car seat. Similar to if you have left on your lights and turn off your car and it buzzes to warn you, maybe a weight sensitive alarm so if there is someone in the back seat it will recognize that. They now have rear view cameras so you can get a full visual behind your vehicle before you back up to prevent accidents.
With as busy as a lot of people are these days and all that goes on in some peoples lives I could see how it MAY happen.
I think its really ashame that you are so wrapped up in you that you could actually forget your baby.
This stories are so tragic and anger me as well.