MandyMurphey's Blog

Mandy,

The women here on the blogs seem to express the view that they could not understand how this could happen and I tend to agree with them. I've forgotten my keys, checkbook, drivers license, heck I even walked out without my glasses one day, but I cannot comprehend how you can forget your child.

I'm not saying these are bad people and I don't feel it has anything to do with their economic status or educational level. This is a problem that has occurred across all boundaries, but like Pertz, I want to know if we can do something to provide a warning if someone ever does this. I tend to follow the addage, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

There is a definite difference in the way this incident was reported and the way the daycare worker incident was reported. Both were accidents that could happen to anyone but the daycare worker was immediately judged and convicted for her mistake. She was one person responsible for many. These were two parents responsible for that one baby. Why was the daycare worker convicted so quickly.

Something I don't understand here....if each thought the other took the baby to day care, and he had already gone to work, that means she had the car...right? Why did he have to park the car? Did they ride together? I'm not seeing something....If she dropped of the other child, why did she not say to him, "btw, the baby's still in the car"...or why did he not ask her? How can you be in that much of a hurry to not even concern yourself with such matters? What's more important? I was running late for work sometimes, but never forgot what was most important. Help me see where this is an understandable incident.

Nothing comes before my children.... NOTHING! I never claimed to be perfect, but I never endangered my children. Whatever happened to asking questions, one to the other? Are they both SO into their careers that they don't have anything else on their minds?
I'm not yelling at you mind you. I just find it totalling inexcusable in this instance. Gee, that woman who left that child in the day care van....wasn't that an accident? Did anybody say "well gee, she was multi-tasking, so it's ok"? No, they didn't. She was cuffed and hauled off like a common criminal. Nobody gave her the benefit of the doubt.

Mandy, I think you are one of the best at Fox 2, however I have to disagree and totally agree with USFemail. There is no way you could forget about your child in the back seat. Especially when you dropped one off minutes before. And why did the wife call her husband to verify if he dropped the baby off? Sounds like to me she is alreay trying to clear her name. From the time I first heard this story, I have noticed a huge piece of the puzzle missing. They should be charged and treated just as the day care worker was. Should they "slip" through the system, it goes to show that our system needs serious help.

Mandy, My question is, if the father was already at work, who put the child in the car?
How can anyone that puts a child in a car forget that they are still in it. And even if running late for work, there is an old addage, that states beter 20 minutes late, than 5 minutes dead. Some one is at fault, even if they do not addmit it.

years ago there was an incident where a mother was driving down the highway with the car seat on the trunk with the baby in it. it fell off and the baby was not injured. The mother was so busy strapping in the other children and in a hurry and forgot she set the car seat on the trunk while she was strapping in all the kids. It was not malicious intent...it was being in a hurry that made her forget. This is not the same as the worker. Day care-Workers have lists where they are supposed to check off children on field trips. schools also do head counts several times during field trips. in my opinion the school worker was totally responsible for the welfare of that child. The parents of the baby are guilty of miscommunication which resulted in the death of their child. How should they be held accountable? I would not want to be the one on that jury.

IT DOENS'T REALLY MATTER AT THIS POINT WHO FORGOT, THE BABY IS JUST AS GONE! THEY WILL HAVE TO LIVE WITH THAT ON THEIR MINDS FOREVER. I PERSONALLY DON'T SEE HOW SOMEONE COULD FORGET THEIR CHILD IN THE CAR, BUT MINE IS 2 SO SHE DOESNT' SLLEP AS MUCH AND IS NOISY, THE BABY WAS PROBABLY ASLEEP AND THE CAR SEAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN FACING TOWARD THE REAR SO SHE COULDN'T SEE THE BABY EITHER. POINT IS, PEOPLE NEED TO SLOW DOWN AND THINK, THINK, THINK. KNOW WERE YOUR KIDS ARE AT, JUST LIKE PEOPLE BACKING OVER THEIR KIDS WITH THE CAR. AGAIN, MINDLESS STUPIDITY. TRADEGY YES, BUT I DON'T BELIEVE ANYONE SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR AN ACCIDENT, THEY WILL BE PUNISHED FOREVER MENTALLY AS IT IS NOW.