A mother's negligence?

[AKA2D '91]

Recently, there was an incident where a 3 year old child was killed. The child was not in a car seat, therefore, not properly restrained. The toddler was riding in the mother's lap at the time of the incident.

Should the mother be held accountable for her negligence? It is against the law to have children unrestrained in vehicles. Or has she suffered enough with the loss of her child?

What do you think?

[NYMinute]

Certainly. Not only should she be charged with endangering the life of a minor, she should also be charged with vehicular manslaughter or manslaughter. I can't tell you how many times I have seen 50 people bunched up in a Chevy with very small children riding unrestrained in the front seat!


[This message has been edited by NYMinute (edited June 19, 2001).]

[Ania]

In Pennsylvania, a father recieved a long jail term because his child was not in the car seat and the mother (pregnant by the way) was not wearing a seat belt. On top of that, he was speeding and ran head on into oncoming traffic! The mother, child, and un-born baby died.

People know they should not do things to put themselves and others in danger. But they do anyway, so they have to deal with it.

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[THICKNCHOCLATE]

I agree with my sisterfriend, ANIA!!! You are absolutely right girlie. Some things are just common sense...gosh!!! (See Ania, I told you I'd have your back )

[CJUS]

I know that this has nothing to do with this topic or anything. I have to share this with my SF. My husband and I we turned into a corner grocery store on yesterday. There was this black car in the parking lot. It was still running, the windows were rolled up,and the windows looked liked they were tinted. And we looked and saw the car was smoking, but the car had filled up with so much smoke that the windows looked tinted. My husband went over and looked in the car and seen that a baby was in the car in a car seat. So we went into the store,a nd asked who car was out there smoking. Nobody answered. We said that there is a baby out in the car and the car was filled with smoke, and we continued to ask who car is that. My husband pulled our car next to it, and jumped off our car onto the other car's windshield to try to break the windshield. He did it about four times, then the window finally gave way. My husband got the baby out of the car, and gave it to me. The same woman who was looking at us funny when we asked who car was that, didn't come out the store. She was busy trying to buy a beer. Then she finally came out after the car was on fire, she tried to take the baby from me. I told her that she wasn't getting the baby. She left that baby in the car, she knew it was smoking, and she was in the store trying to buy a beer. My husband talked so bad about her. WE gave the baby to the owner of the store and called the police.
The baby was given to the fire dept, and the woman was transported to jail. In Memphis, a lot of children have died by dehydrating to death in a vehicle at these high temperatures, but they occured a day care centers because the bus drivers and monitors failed to see if all of the children was off the bus. One child, I think he was one fell asleep on the floor, and was locked on the bus for eight or more hours, he couldn't get out because he couldn't roll down the window or open the doors. He died. I feel so sorry for these children who are brought into this world of neglect. I am a mother of two, and I can't understand the pain that the parents have went through, but I put myself into the parents shoes. It's a heart stopping feeling. I am sure that it is more than that. Sorry for the long message, I am so emotional when it comes down to children. Parents who neglect their children should pay with the fullest extent of the law. That's why I chose CJUS as my major, these people are going to pay for neglecting these defenseless children.

[Tanzanite]

I am out here in Cali for the summer and yesterday I saw the most horrible thing on the news:

A woman had a baby...apparently in a bathroom or something... and left it outside in a Wal-mart bag. Two boys found it by a pizza parlor and thought it was a cat hollering. As it turns out the baby was only an hour...yes...an hour old. The baby was still alive and is now in the hospital waiting to go to a foster home...police still looking for mother. They say at this time that charges will not be pressed. What makes it even worse is that Cali has some law that you can drop a baby off at the hospital no questions asked and filling out no paperwork. So why couldn't this woman just have dropped her baby off instead of leaving it outside in this hot weather. Thank God the baby is still alive.

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[pretty3grl]

There is a story out of Dallas today about a mother who put 3 of her 8 children on a city bus to go to their grandmother's house. When the bus arrived at the grandmother's house she said that she could not keep the kids, and they would have to be returned to the mother. The bus driver contacted the mother, but the mother told him that she did not want the kids either, and he would have to take them somewhere. The driver then took the kids to child protective services. I hope that they put this mother UNDER the jail!

[tickledpink]

Part of me wants to say yes, but I think the death of her child is punishment enough. I can't imagine her actually doing jail time for it.

As far as CJUS' story, are you for real? The baby could've died. And she didn't respond when you said that the car was smoking? I hope they put her under the jail.

And pretty3grl's story, just plain pitiful. Can you imagine how those children must've felt?