"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
There's just no excuse for that sort of thing. Which was more important, the specials in the store or the child? And why couldn't she have brought the child with her? I mean, at 11 months it's fairly likely she would have sat in one place.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
What gets me is that we keep hearing these same stories over & over. And these poor babies. It breaks my heart and makes me furious. I'm so thankful that someone noticed this baby.
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
It breaks my heart too. I really wish this sort of thing would never happen again. I'm glad this baby didn't die. Any number of infant deaths from leaving them in a car is too many.
But at the same time, I just barely read the "Lesbian rape gangs" thread. At the moment I can't help but feel that there are worse things than dieing as an infant.
This sort of thing is becoming more and more prevalent as our society becomes more and more self centered and focused only on what makes "me" happy. Very sad!
Well, that and the fact there is simply more of us and there is greater "awareness" of this so the competitive media is publishing more stories about it...
In no way am I defending the stupidity exhibited by this grandparent (at 63, she is the mother?! I doubt it, sounds like the reporter got the article title wrong), but there used to be a time when it was not considered socially reprobate and criminal for a parent to leave children in the car (of course with the windows rolled down) while they went into a store, if the children were old enough to be left unattended... just as there was a time when it was safe for parents to let their children play outside from morning to dusk in the neighborhood without constant visual supervision.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
I remember when I was six or seven, we washed all of our clothes at the laundromat. Mom used to leave my younger sister and I in the car while she carried in the heavy baskets. She always rolled the windows down a bit, the laundry had big windows in front so she could alwlays see us, and she wasn't away for more than about three of four minutes.
That's quite a bit different than leaving an 11-month-old in a sweltering car completely unattended for an hour. That's neglect no matter which generation your from.
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The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. - Julie Beck
No doubt there is a big difference and that the one is neglect and the other isn't. But, today, it may not be viewed that way... and that is all I was getting at.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
I once was shopping and left our baby in the car in her carseat. My wife, who was with me, said, "Where's the baby?" I freaked out and ran back... Mistakes happen, especially with moms who've just had babies and can't remember things (memory loss is a common aftereffect of having a baby).
So while I agree deliberately locking your children in the hot car is bad, I don't think it's always cut and dry...
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
My neighbor accidentally locked her baby in the car in her driveway. She left the keys on the seat and the door autolocked. They are in our ward and I was home for lunch so she called frantic. I went over. It was one of those new fangled mini vans. We called the fire department. They came out but had no slim jim. So they called the sherriff and they came out, no slim jim. So the sherrif called the highway patrol, no slim jim and they don't do that anymore because someone sued over damage done to their vehicle by the slim jim. Best they could do was break the window. I took a coat hanger and got it open. The baby was crying because it was hot due to the car being parked in the sun. All these emergency personell on hand and the best they could offer was to break the window!! I've had to break into several cars over the years in similar situations. I feel like I have a gift for breaking into cars that I'll never use for anything more than helping people who had a senior moment. I have not caused even a penny's worth of damage to the cars I have broken into nor pocketed a penny in ill gotten gain. Some tallent! I can't even turn it into a legal vocation!
