So I watched the news last night…which always seems to send me in some kind of mini fit of anger but anyways…
How is it that someone “forgets” they have a 7 week old baby boy in the backseat of their automobile on what is arguably one of the hottest days of the summer?
Thank goodness for the passers by that noticed otherwise this stories’ ending could’ve been much, much worse!
Just leads me to believe even more that people should be required to get some sort of license or pass some kind of test at least before being allowed to bring a life they are required to be responsible for into this world…
—Beloved
This article appears in Aug 13-19, 2009.
She says she didn’t know the baby was there. That she thought the baby was with the husband. Either way, it shouldn’t have happened…
Yeah that was a bullshit excuse… who forgets their baby is in the car when they have to unstrap the other kid, and they both should have been in the back seat?
BTW, love the tag!!
There is something very sketchy about this story.
Playing devil’s advocate here…I don’t think the story said what kind of vehicle she was driving. If her husband went out the door with the younger child and they had a van say and the youngest was in the farthest back seat on the passenger side and the older child was in the front back seat on the drivers side she could easily have missed him if he was asleep as the car seat would be rear facing. it did say that she was taking the older child to an emergency appointment so she could have had a lot on her mind added onto being late. It could happen.
It was a truck.
Maybe she forgot she was pregnant too until one day she woke up and found she had a baby. She’s a horrible Mom! Wait until the kid grows up and finds out about this story.
They definately said she was driving a 4 door GMC truck and as mentioned above if she had her other child in the back seat where they are supposed to be she would have seen the baby.
Things like this do happen, yes. People make mistakes and this woman is very lucky but at the same time it definatley is a careless mistake. It is a parents responsibility to know the whereabouts of their children at ALL times.
Just because one of your children has an emergency doesn’t mean you get to forget about the other one.
Nova Scotians require a test and a license to operate a motor vehicle in our province. That must be why there are no vehicle accidents.
I am sure the mother feels like as big a piece of shit as everyone is calling her. Just be thankful someone noticed, and the child is OK.
I wonder what a 4yo in severe dental pain would be like anyways. I am surprised such a negligent mother wouldnt just tell the brat to stfu and deal with it.
Walter
I could maybe seeing forgeting a kid if you have a passel of them (Home Alone) LOL. But seriously, who put the baby in the vehicle?
I kind of agree with babyshan0412…I think this could happen to a lot of people who are otherwise good parents…just an unfortunate mixture of events/miscommunication that led to the baby being overlooked, despite, I’m sure, the best efforts of the parents. We should all be grateful that this incident appears to be more of a warning than anything else. You can bet it will never happen again, at least not with these parents. Some parents are not so lucky.
I think it’s bullshit. If the husband was home with the baby, how did the baby get anywhere near the truck? It was strapped in. Someone had to put it there. I am sure the cops called Child Services for this very reason–the excuse was lame.
However, if she had said what seems more likely, “I made a bad decision. I didn’t want to wake the baby, the car was secure, and I really didn’t think about the heat”, would it make a difference really? She still would have been judged as a neglectful (or at least dim) mother.
You wonder though…would the cops have made that call if she had admitted that she had made a grave err in judgment? I mean, taking responsibility usually means that there is a good chance that you have learned from your mistake.
A big congratulations to the observant by-passers! Although most would judge the decision, many would have assumed the parents had everything under control and kept on walking.
a few things…..
when my kid was 4 he could get in and out of his car seat alone therefore the kid could have done that and her not see the baby there….
maybe the father was going to take the truck and so he put the kid in and ran in to get something then the wife hopped in and drove off…
there are many reasons to forget/not know a child is there….
Main one being ….How old is this parent….16 like all the others i see around town? if so she probably had her focus on texting someone….
i vote we test and licence people before letting them breed…These days you need paperwork to have a friggen dog but not a baby….nice!!!
I would have called the cops & then immediately smashed out a window while they were on the line with me to get that child out of the oven…sorry I mean truck !
Finally; a case the police solved!!!!
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
She didn’t know the baby was in the backseat?
This women should be shot with a ball of her own shit.
This women should have her kids taken away from her if she’s that absent minded not to know there’s a fucking baby in the backseat.
There are people all over the world who would be excellent parents who want children SO much, but can’t, yet this dipshit gets to pop out a kid and almost kill it. It’s such a crock of shit.
Frenchie, it is nice that you are trying to be reasonable, but your reasons are highly unlikely. I mean, the older child was going to an emergency APPOINTMENT. I think it more likely the wife would inform her husband she needed the truck, and since he was home, and it was an emergency, he would know what was going on, especially since the appointment had to be made. The only way the mother can be absolved here is if she told the husband that he would have to watch the baby while she took the other child to the dentist. And then, thinking, “Hell, no”, he went out and strapped the baby in while she was getting the other child ready (assuming that she would notice after she left).
The only time I remember ‘forgetting’ one of my children is after I went into a panic after not being able to visually locate one of my twins only to be told dryly by my husband that he found her–she was on my hip.
My mom forgot to pick me up from school once.
It was my second day at Acadia and she totally forgot we were carpooling. Poor thing felt wretched (didn’t help that I ended up with pneumonia the next day)….some moms are stressed but….no excuse for forgetting a baby who’s totally and completely dependent on you, in a car, on a day hotter than the hinges of hell.
Cases like this have happened in the states where the father or mother forgot the kid was in the car, forgot to drop them off at daycare or wherever, left the baby in the car while they went to work and the babies ended up dying in the heat. The parents responsible went to jail, btw.
Emergency dental apt eh? Did the kid “accidently” fall down the stairs and get a black eye too?
Apparently hubby put the baby into the truck and didn’t tell mom. So if the other child was in the front seat, it is possible she didn’t know. Further, when the police got her and told her, she freaked out and by all appearances she didn’t know, according to police statements. Unfortunately miscommunication can cause a lot of misery.
It is amazing how people jump to conclusions without knowing the facts.
How old is the other kid? Cause, kids under 12 aren’t supposed to be in the front seat (cause, you know, airbags can rip and/or burn a little kid’s face off). So if the other kid was in the front seat and is under 12…there’s some serious bad parenting goin’ on up in there.
Just sayin’ 😉
Um…see above, Tim :). As for the ‘freaking out’ and ‘by all appearances’, did you not see the video on the woman who tried to have her husband killed? By all appearances, her freaking out would have been considered sincere if we hadn’t known beforehand that it was an act.
But, you are right about miscommunication and jumping to conclusions without the facts (or at least using some logic).
HKM and you think the cops bought into that. No more than they did for Boudreau or Smith or the rest.
Nope, I don’t think the cops bought into it at all. But, did you see their stone faces? They knew the truth for a fact (not the gut feeling or due to experience knowing) and still they didn’t bat an eye at her display. Man, you have to have some mega self-control in order to maintain the disgust you would have felt.
I mean, to control the disgust (not maintain) :p
the police might not charge her because it was an accident…next time i accidentially hit another car,will i get the same afforted to me,hell no…that’s why i and many people have NO RESPECT for the halifax police…please apply the laws equally and fairly,or crimes will soar because of the lack of respect citizens have towards their police force….that mother should be charged ,pathetic parenting skills
PK you can have a child in the front seat of a truck if they’re in a car seat and the passenger air bag is off.
Hopefully this woman, who is in her 30s BTW not 16, has learned her lesson and will be more careful with her children.
Wonder if the mom will ‘forget’ to turn the airbag off the next time her kid is in the front seat…?
Pretty Kitty, Acadia…the university? I must admit, my diligence is relaxing some now that my twins are 17 :). And, I would feel bad that they waited in the rain after I made a commitment to them (especially if they got sick :), but I think I would fault them mostly for not having the good sense to get out of the rain. And you are scaring me…I still have to drive them to school at the university level?!
Fucking hell. I have ADD and I have never EVER, at my most exhausted, sleep deprived, or stressed , EVER forgotten my baby, or done anything to put him at risk! Normal parents don’t do these things. Like PK says, she should be shot with a ball of shit, and have her surviving child taken away from her. If you can’t remember something as simple as removing your newborn from the car, you’re not competent enough to be a parent!
Enough already. I’m sure this poor woman has suffered enough from this totally moronic mistake – some people were ready to string her up by the pubes before knowing that she wouldn’t be charged. The baby’s o.k. so it’s time to let this issue die a natural death. You can be sure Ms. Blindspot will be checking the back seat for the next 50 years.
Scooby how do you forget something you don’t even know it’s there? Unknown to mom, dad put the baby in the vehicle. If baby is quiet, and your concentrating on something else (ie other kid in pain).
I agree with TTFN. Sounds like a terrible mistake and I would hate for my most classic blunders to be aired on TV and discussed on the internet. Let it rest.