No charges yet after professor's infant dies in hot car

The investigation into the case of an 11-month-old girl who died inside a hot van is not expected to be complete until next week, according to the Hamilton County prosecutor.

[warsaw]

There wont be any charges. It is open season on children with unfit mothers. Everyone please call your congressmen, representative or senator and demand that we seek conviction on the parents that are killing their children in hot cars and then using the discusting excuse that "I forgot" To anyone that does not agree go sit in your car for an hour or two with the windows up and no air on a day like today then imagine the suffering this child and others have went through.

[Sick of It]

While my heart goes out to the family for their loss. I don't understand how if you're a certain race you can get away with it. If it was someone of color they would have put her under the jail. Remember the lady who left her kids at home because she didn't have anyone to watch them because she had to work? She got major jail time. But the kids were well feed, clean and the home was clean. There could be more to this story, but I guess if you're the right color, with certain socio-economic status you'll get a second chance.

[warsaw]

I dont believe race has anything to do with this particular issue. the problem is that there are laws for the neglect or abandonment of children but there are no laws in Ohio for leaving a child in a hot car. That is why these mothers are doing this, because they know that it is unlikely they will be convicted. Sometimes leaving children home alone can be just as dangerous.

[LTS]

Sick of It wrote:

While my heart goes out to the family for their loss. I don't understand how if you're a certain race you can get away with it. If it was someone of color they would have put her under the jail. Remember the lady who left her kids at home because she didn't have anyone to watch them because she had to work? She got major jail time. But the kids were well feed, clean and the home was clean. There could be more to this story, but I guess if you're the right color, with certain socio-economic status you'll get a second chance.

I am going to assume you are a "person of color"?
Well I am not.
I have to say I agree with you 100%.
However, there have been some white people who have been buried under the jail for this same thing, because they were just regular working class people.

It doesn't matter what color you are or aren't, or what your education level, social standing, job or career, or whatever, if you murder your child or cause your child's death due to negligence, or whatever you should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and never see the light of day again.

This baby suffered.
She should suffer.

A mother is supposed to protect her child;
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!

If you was to leave a pet in the car long enough to walk up to a coke machine and buy a coke the law would crucify you, when did our children start becoming less than dog's?

[cara242]

warsaw wrote:

I dont believe race has anything to do with this particular issue. the problem is that there are laws for the neglect or abandonment of children but there are no laws in Ohio for leaving a child in a hot car. That is why these mothers are doing this, because they know that it is unlikely they will be convicted. Sometimes leaving children home alone can be just as dangerous.

I also do not agree that color or socio-economic status has anything to do with whether or not an individual is convicted. I do, however, disagree with your statement that because we have no laws about leaving a child in a hot car is the reason that mothers are doing this. Brenda Nesselroad Slaby was not prosecuted because she claimed to have forgotten her child was in the car. From the legal perspective, that apparently isn't a crime. I'm sure most of these parents have not researched the law books to find a way to dispose of their children without repercussions.

[cara242]

Sick of It wrote:

While my heart goes out to the family for their loss. I don't understand how if you're a certain race you can get away with it. If it was someone of color they would have put her under the jail. Remember the lady who left her kids at home because she didn't have anyone to watch them because she had to work? She got major jail time. But the kids were well feed, clean and the home was clean. There could be more to this story, but I guess if you're the right color, with certain socio-economic status you'll get a second chance.

So if you have a 'good reason' you should be allowed to leave your child or children home alone or in a car and nothing will happen (because you had a good reason, remember?) What would that mother with her 'good reason' say to officers had the home caught fire or if some other unforseen tragedy had happened with no one to help them escape? Please give details of cases in which color was the determining factor in prosecution.

[greengirl]

It astonishes me how hateful and spiteful we as humans are. We are very quick to judge others, and to judge them harshly.

Have you ever been driving home from work or driving to work and get there and don't remember even driving? Have you ever so clearly recalled doing something and then come to find out that you didn't do it at all. I am single with no children. I have days that are so busy, I fully believe that I have already done certain things (take out the garbage that morning, put the garage door down, unplug the iron) and then find out I didn't do them. I recalled a memory from a different day. It is routine, a habit for me to do these things daily or weekly.

The same is true in this situation, but with disastrous and tragic consequences. I know for a fact that this mother thought of her child repeatedly through the day. I know that she believed she had taken her to daycare. I understand how it could happen and I think that those of you out there who are so harshly judging this mother should think twice, lest the same thing happen to you.

If I thought, for an instant, that there was actual neglect in this instance, I would beg and plead that justice be meted out. In this case, I am fully convinced that this was accidental and there wasn't intentional neglect by this mother. I think the punishment she has already received--the death of her beloved daughter, the constant media scrutiny, the harsh judgements by anonymous people, and then having the NAACP try to make this a race issue--is more than sufficient.

May God have mercy on us all.

[warsaw]

Greengirl, If and when you have children and if you are the good mother you sound like you will be. You will know that no matter what is on your mind, how stressed out you are I say it is absolutely impossable to forget a child in a car, and even more so for a whole day. And when you say people are hatefull to the mother think of how much this poor little girl suffered. I will not judge her but in my "openion" it is at the very least a very serious case of neglect. With the animal rights laws in place today if this had been a dog instead of a child she would probadly already be in jail.