Mom who lost 9-month-old son in hot car warns parents amid US heatwave.

I would assume that we don't know about it because the internet did not exist back then and temps were not so high that people could cook to death in cars.

No link. FAIL.

Clearly the cookies were ready. I hope they were Little Debbies.

I never heard of this before 2000 either and I have always watched and read new stories.

"I've never been a parent...but let me lecture people on parenting anyway!"

But OP, did you hear about the baby that was locked in a car when it was 100 degrees out, broke out the car window, stormed inside the supermarket, found his mother, and beat her to death with his bare hands?

Yes, R6! And then he went home, bitchslapped his dad and said, I'm the man of the house now!

This case from last year was infuriating as fuck. Guy left his 2 year old daughter in a parked car in his driveway in a Tucson surburb. It was 109. Wife later comes homes and finds the toddler in the car.

Investigation revealed a lot of crazy shit leading up to the toddler's death.

[quote]I mean these parents cook their children to death and get off free because 'I forgot.'

I'm the victim here! It could happen to anybody!

Please donate to my GoFundMe.

There's a large casino right outside of Northeast Philly that has its security guards patrol the parking lot for kids who have been left in the car while mom or dad pops in for a few spins of the roulette wheel or a few pulls on a slot machine.

R8 I read recently that Scholtes refused a plea deal and will go on trial in October for first-degree murder.

Did you notice how both his wife and his mom defended/enabled him and made excuses for him? He must have been hot before the beer weight. Why did he steal beer? For the thrill? Did all the stores cut him off? Was he personally penniless and on a parsimonious allowance? Guys like him - risk taking, domestic violence, substance abusing esp. alcohol - are closet cases.

I can't believe that she allowed him to be alone with those children after leaving them in the car more than once I mean you're in f****** Arizona for God's sake and you're a doctor.

My dad was a drunk and always pretty negligent but he somehow managed to never kill any of us. It’s hard to see how it’s possible for people to be this reckless with their kids

Not interested in her excuses

The first time I heard about this happening was probably 20 years ago and I still remember feeling angry inside when hearing people express understanding for the father who left his two children in the hot car. The description of what those small children went through before dying was horrifying. I've blocked most of it out but it included the little girl pulling out her hair. I hate to even repeat that, but it is a horrible death for children to endure beforehand. I don't read any more of these stories when they happen, but I'm strongly of the opinion that it's inexcusable to forget your child is in the car. Truly, no excuses.

You people are incredibly ignorant

I left a box of chips in the car after grocery shopping and felt guilty.

A black man did it!

I have nothing but sympathy when this happens. Horrible horrible horrible. I really hate that it happens, and I feel terrible for all parties involved.

Op makes it sound like an online challenge gone wrong.

R6 and R7 have double-handedly saved this mess of a thread.

Nice link, OP.

That's all well and good when it's 100 degrees outside but in the winter you'll have to improvise

I. az it has happened many times over the last 70 or so years

Patsy, how long do you leave the baby in the vehicle to ensure that it's evenly cooked? I wouldn't like to eat an undercooked infant.

I can't believe this cretin was released from prison.

WE STILL HAVE NO LINK.

This event the OP noticed may have happened 11 years ago but it just popped up yesterday on OP's screen.

Is that J.D. Vance at R26?

I am so glad that so many of you think leaving a baby in a car like putting a roast in the oven and we are supposed to feel sorry for the parent is funny. You can kill your own child and it's not so bad because the parent suffers so much.

[quote]I am so glad that so many of you think leaving a baby in a car like putting a roast in the oven and we are supposed to feel sorry for the parent is funny.

Shut your gaping pie hole, stupid frau bitch R29. Leave.

R30 Close your butt hole for once and stop your hurricanes which can blow away 18 wheel rigs.

Here is the stupid mom who probable never forgot a lunch date, a job report or a Downton Abbey episode.

Girls! Girls! You BOTH sound insufferable.

Ive never bought this bullshit excuse they "forgot" their baby. Its murder,plain and simple. Who forgets a fucking baby ??? Notice the majority arent on drugs or drunk when this happens. You could almost understand if they are fucked up ,but to be sober as a judge ? Nope.

R31, that’s your best shot? Really?

You fucking stupid frau bitch.

Best,

R30

R34 I also don’t buy it. It is manslaughter at minimum.

It’s nice that everything’s plain and simple in your world R35

R34

[quote] I can't believe that she allowed him to be alone with those children after leaving them in the car more than once I mean you're in f****** Arizona for God's sake and you're a doctor.

Christopher Scholtes' wife is an example of how someone can be very well educated, but still be stupid as fuck.

Mom who lost 9-month-old son in hot car warns parents amid US heatwave

Baking a baby isn't the same thing as losing one.

I always feel sympathy when this happens. I don't have kids, but I have done some absent-minded things that shocked me.

A simple change in routine usually causes these things. A different parent takes the kid to preschool; they leave at a different time or take a different route. The brain goes on automatic pilot and goes back to its normal routine. A few years back, there was a case where a dad shot himself to death after realizing that he had accidentally left his baby in his car, where it died.

Burn baby, burn

DISO INFERNO

Maybe if you’re so dumb you forget a living being in a hot car you don’t need kids

[quote]A Florida man accused of leaving his young son in a truck for hours while he went to the barbershop and out for drinks at a bar — [bold]and then went back to the same bar later that night after his son died[/bold] — has been arrested in the toddler's death.

Yep, the kid fried while he was in the bar, he was arrested and set free, then he went straight back to the bar WITH HIS MOM.

Did he have a "memory lapse" and forget he'd just killed his kid a few hours before?

[quote]I read recently that Scholtes refused a plea deal and will go on trial in October for first-degree murder.

[quote] Did you notice how both his wife and his mom defended/enabled him and made excuses for him? He must have been hot before the beer weight. Why did he steal beer? For the thrill? Did all the stores cut him off? Was he personally penniless and on a parsimonious allowance? Guys like him - risk taking, domestic violence, substance abusing esp. alcohol - are closet cases.

I lived in Tucson years ago and I still follow news/media outlets as I have relatives there and visit every fall. I got sucked into the Scholtes case for awhile and there are a bunch of Reddit threads about it. In one of the Reddit threads, a poster claimed that she/he knew Scholtes in high school and that he was a spoiled rich kid. If that was poster was telling the truth, it fits well with Scholtes' entitled asswipe attitude. I'm going to guess he was shoplifting beer because maybe the wife was checking receipts to see what he was buying. Who knows? Maybe, he was shoplifting beer for thrill

The wife is POS too. If Scholtes' side of the family is indeed wealthy, I wonder if they paid for the wife's medical school tutition and that could maybe explain why she is defending him.

Scholtes' teenage daughter from a previous relationship seems to have a good head on her shoulders and knows what a POS he is. I hope that daughter decides to cut off all contact with Scholtes and his family.

Well you leave a child in the car or you don't. It's not rocket science.

That's right R46, Scholtes' behavior is that of a spoiled person who always gets what he wants. After reading a couple stories about the case, I take back my guess that he must have been hot. Thin or thick, in photos he always has a mildly FLK thing going on. Looks-wise, he's matched to his wife though. It must be about the money.

The teenaged Scholtes girl was taken from dad's custody due to being beat on if I remember correctly. She was probably a scapegoat for the family's dysfunction. They usually become truth-tellers since they have a conscience and they have nothing to gain by being silent.

There must have been an easier way to become an expert on the subject, Mother.

That poor car.

When it happens to new mothers of babies, I have sympathy because I truly believe chronic sleep deprivation/ post-partum hormones fuck with women's brains in incomparable ways. That was how the baby died in 'Servant', right? When you haven't slept more than an hour or two a night for weeks straight because of a crying baby and have practically no help from your deadbeat husband, yeah, I can easily see being so brain-busted you could forget your baby in the car.

When fathers do it, I'm SLIGHTLY more suspicious. They aren't generally as sleep-deprived as mothers since they're not the ones who have to get up every hour to nurse.

The stories keep coming.

Car seats should beep or something as soon as the driver opens the car door.

Outside yesterday was like being in Lawrence of Arabia. Just without Peter O'Toole and Omar Shariff at their most gorgeous.

Police procedural TV shows used to warn people about things like this. I can picture Dragnet (if it was still around) doing an episode on this. In a way it did serve a purpose since people who watched the shows were alerted to the dangers. Some people are really that stupid and need to be shown.

The Scholtes story obviously is a trainwreck, but r42 is right. It would be super easy to forget a child, especially a baby that's not making any noise. Say Mom usually takes the baby to daycare, but for some reason Dad is doing it today. Dad gets caught up in his usual routine and since the baby is asleep in the back, he forgets about it. I've heard lots of anecdotes from parents here in AZ about leaving a shoe in the backseat, etc, just to make sure you don't forget. But all it would take is one time. I can't imagine living with that kind of guilt.

Do newer cars, Teslas, etc, have any kind of monitor for things like this? Maybe some sort of motion detector could save at least some of these kids' lives.

Some people either leave something of the baby’s on the front seat or their purse or wallet in the backseat as a reminder the baby is in the car.

At face value it may seem like an over abundance of caution. I think it’s a good idea.

My cousin and her husband are both nurses. She works at an oncology center and he works at a college clinic. They alternate in dropping off their twins at daycare. They have system in which they keep their scrubs in backpacks in the backseat with the kids as a reminder.

R57, my last three cars, a 2016, 2020 and 2023, all Hyundais, indeed had/have a warning system iif something is left in the backseat, even if it’s just a shopping bag.

Well, kids (not babies) used to ride in the front seat. You didn't forget them in those days. Also today everyone has the windows up, which wasn't the case in the past when it was hot. A child could at least be heard crying if left in a car with the windows open. Also the car might not get as hot.

Still we've all been taught for years that you don't leave a child alone in a car. I don't see how how someone could forget the child was there, unless they're on drugs.

[quote] It would be super easy to forget a child, especially a baby that's not making any noise. Say Mom usually takes the baby to daycare, but for some reason Dad is doing it today. Dad gets caught up in his usual routine and since the baby is asleep in the back, he forgets about it.

I'm not buying this.

Here's an understandable reason:

Child dies after being left in hot car by mother who went to get lip filler, police say.

[quote]Mom who lost 9-month-old son in hot car warns parents amid US heatwave.

Losing a child in something as small as a car simply is extremely careless, no matter what the temperature.

^Lady Bracknell

I kind of have to agree - this never happened when we were young.

But then again - my mom would leave us in the station wagon while she went in to go shopping. We could roll the windows up or down (manual). So maybe not the same thing?

The mom is a dumb cunt. I have no sympathy for her, but I do for the infant she scorched to death. No young child or animal should be left in a car during the summer months for any period of time. Leaving an infant unsupervised in a car at all is crazy.

A California mom charged in the death of her toddler was getting lip filler injections when she allegedly left the child in her car amid temperatures that topped 100 degrees, court records obtained Wednesday show.

When I got my boob jobs I always made sure little Harvey was cared for.

The infant would have had a much better chance of survival if she left it at home unattended.