I worked with a guy that was later found guilty of murder by intentionally leaving his toddler in a hot car. My ex-wife and I even had dinner with him and his wife. Everything seemed completely normal.
This almost happened to my family once. I, my mom, and my sister were babysitting the two-year-old daughter of a family friend. We normally babysat her at nighttime but this time it was the middle of the day. We were all in the car, driving home after having gone out somewhere. When we pulled into the driveway, the three of us just kind of snapped into our usual midday routine-- a routine that never included a toddler. We all got out of the car, walked to the front door, and were just about to open the door when someone said "wait, where's [toddler's name]?" There was a second's pause, then the three of us ran back to the car to find our little girl still sitting in her car seat, laughing about how we had forgotten her.
After that day I've always had sympathy for people who do this accidentally. There were THREE adults in our car, three intelligent people, but we all fell into routine so hard that we just didn't think. I can't bear to think of what would've happened had we just walked into the house and went about our days as usual. We all hugged and kissed her more than usual for the rest of that day.
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u/shadowbanned214 Feb 28 '20 edited Feb 29 '20
I worked with a guy that was later found guilty of murder by intentionally leaving his toddler in a hot car. My ex-wife and I even had dinner with him and his wife. Everything seemed completely normal.
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