A doped-up topless dancer and a well-educated dentist: What do they have in common?
They both left a child in the car to die of heat.
The hoochie is facing 30 years in prison. Let's hope the dentist's future is the same.
"You would never think that something like this would happened to somebody like that," next-door neighbor John Hoover said.
But according to Kids and Cars, professionals often leave their children in unattended cars. The nonprofit group, based in Kansas City, tracks information on children killed or injured in non-traffic related incidents.
"The people this has happened to are college professors, the CEO of a hospital, a veterinarian," founder and president Janette Fennell said. "It speaks to the high-paced, stressed-out lives we live."
Oh, that's why. Sometimes you can get so darn busy you forget you have a kid.
Posted by floridacracker at July 16, 2004 07:29 PMI'd like to see them face an hour or so in a hot car before they are carted off for their prison stints. I'd stop shorting of letting them bake but I don't find it cruel or unusual to give them a taste of what that child faced.
Posted by: John Little at July 16, 2004 08:56 PMYou know what these kids do? They tear out their hair. It's an agonizing death.
Posted by: Donnah at July 16, 2004 09:00 PMWe have cretins doing the same thing here in summer, also critters. One prick tried to sue the police because they busted a window in his car because he had left his dog locked in. I think he should have been locked in the boot, and left in a mall carpark for a few hours.
Posted by: Paul at July 19, 2004 06:26 AM