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jewels6567
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« on: December 11, 2001, 02:51:39 pm » |
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I heard the following article on the news this morning and I was horrified. Now I must say right off the bat that I do not have children yet but I can't even imagine being this distracted to forget my child. Does she not have pictures on her desk where she would have looked at them at some point in the day and said "oh my gosh I forgot my child"? And even if, for some strange reason, she really didn't remember, isn't it still child endangerment or involuntary manslaughter? I mean come on, her child died because of this. If I was her other child I might be worried "well what if she forgets me". Anybody else have thoughts on this? http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20011210_716.html > http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20011210_716.html Julie |
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spitfire78
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« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2001, 03:51:43 pm » |
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I too was horrified this morning. I believe the charge was negligence. In my mind, that certainly was negligence. I do not for a minute believe that she intentionally left her child to die in the hot sun. However, I feel that she was definitely negligent when she "forgot" her. I also don't have children, so perhaps I can't relate. But I cannot begin to imagine how a parent could forget that they left their child in the car.
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blufire21
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« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2001, 04:54:33 pm » |
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Quoted from the link in the orgininal post: "Engholm, 35, an administrator at Dallas County Hospital, testified at her trial that she routinely took Clare to a baby sitter and then took her 3-year-old son, Eric, to a day care center.
On that day, she was running late and dropped her son off first. She then drove to the hospital and went to work, forgetting that her daughter was still in the minivan. She said she was preoccupied with some meetings coming up at work. "
Ok, that's bullplop! If you routinly drop your daughter off, then wouldn't you routinly notice if you didn't make a regular stop? Don't get me wrong. This mother LOST her child. I think that is a far harsher punishement than a judge could ever deal out, and she has suffered, but I still find it hard to believe. The baby didn't even make a sound?
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radaro
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« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2001, 05:28:55 pm » |
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I find two things surprising.
1. The daycare never called to find out where the child was. If you have a child that routinely attends daycare and suddenly doesn't show up one day, shouldn't the daycare call? Trust me on this one, I'm not blaming the daycare - this was not their fault but this seems a little strange. Either the daycare didn't call or they did and she "was too preoccupied" to notice that either.
2. She didn't notice the baby in the car seat until she picked up her son??? Do you mean that the entire time she was driving her van - all the way to work and all the way back - she never, ever, even once looked in her rear-view mirror?? I don't own a van but I have driven one once or twice. At some point you do have to look in the rear view mirror and when you do, you may not see everything in the van but you certainly should notice a dead child in a car seat.
I'm not buying her defense!
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