Over the past 10 years, 340 children have died in America from being left unattended in hot, sweltering vehicles.
Over half of the cases never were prosecuted.
The majority of parents or caregivers who left the children in vehicles claim they just forgot. Excuse me but how do you forget you left a child in the back seat of a locked car for hours in the heat?
I find it appalling that most cases aren’t prosecuted, and in the most of the rest, the punishment is light.
The timely topic, what with temperatures in the 90’s all this week, made for emotional discussion for 90 minutes today on WISN as I filled in for Mark Belling. I had my share of callers who defended the parents, claiming they had been punished enough, and that mistakes can happen. Where is the sympathy for the innocent children?
As I told one woman, one plus one equals three is a mistake. Leaving a child strapped in a car seat for eight hours to bake to death is a crime.
There must be consequences for the death of a child.
A Greenfield couple made news lately for locking their boy in a closet when they went out partying to watch Packer games. The boy survived, but
the couple faces jail time. Shouldn’t there be jail time when there’s a fatality due to neglect?
Here are more
details on an Associated Press review of kids dying in hot cars over the past 10 years.
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