A 6-month-old boy died after being left for hours in a hot car in Louisiana, authorities said.

A 6-month-old boy died after being left for hours in a hot car in Louisiana, authorities said.

The baby was found dead in the backseat by his parent at about 5:46 p.m. Tuesday, according to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office.

When the parent went to pick up the baby from day care after work, they realized they forgot to drop him off at day care that morning, the sheriff’s office said.

    • el_abuelo@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      Yeah this is so incredibly sad, if I had come back to my car and realised that my own preventable negligence had caused my child not just to die, but to die so needlessly, so carelessly and so awfully I’m not sure how I would cope. How could you possibly go on with that on your shoulders? It would utterly crush me…and rightly so. That parent/those parents are awful awful people. This should not be anywhere near possible.

      Edit: upon reading other comments, I’ve reflected on my own comment on the parents and have slightly changed my view; personally I think the gravity of the mistake outweighs everything else they have done in life no matter how good and so my statement on the balance of things is probably true, imo. However it is not something that needed to be said and nor is it a comment on the type of person/people they were up until, and after this.

    • randoot@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Having gone through what is essentially sleep deprivation torture when raising twins, I believe this and the guilt would be unimaginable.

    • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Piggybacking your comment to say that this kinda shit would happen a lot less if we had mandatory maternity/paternity leave.

      • shottymcb@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Ah yes! That way my kid can definitely die of hyperthermia in my arms walking 5 miles to the grocery in 100°F instead of almost certainly not dying in my car.

        • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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          2 months ago

          Lol this doesn’t happen.

          Edit: just Google child heat stroke—the cases all involve kids trapped in vehicles. Heat stroke for young, healthy people in the outdoor environment is not difficult to avoid. It usually occurs when people are forced to do intense physical labor without rest. It’s not happening while you’re walking with your kid to school or daycare or whatever.

          Cars are much more dangerous to children than walking is. There is a mountain of evidence to support this.