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Negligence
« on: September 06, 2007, 07:46:17 AM »
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/09/04/car_death.html

Mom escapes charges in toddler's hot-car death
Tuesday,  September 4, 2007 12:36 PM


BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) — No charges will be filed against a middle school administrator whose toddler daughter died last month when she was left in the back seat of her mother's SUV during a heat wave, a prosecutor said today.

Leaving the child in the car for the work day was “a substantial lapse of due care” but did not meet the definition of reckless conduct necessary for prosecution, said Clermont County Prosecutor Don White.

Brenda Nesselroad-Slaby, 40, is assistant principal at Glen Este Middle School, about 20 miles east of Cincinnati. Authorities said she left her 2-year-old daughter, Cecilia, strapped into a car seat for about eight hours on Aug. 23 while she was at work at the school.

Temperatures outside reached about 100 degrees.



Wow...
This unfortunate "lapse in memory" has happened a few times in the past year- even in our area. I honestly don't get it...how can you forget a child in the hot car for 8 hours? Maybe this is heartless to say, but if you're too busy to remember a child in the car, then perhaps you shouldn't have a child in the first place. I think it's stupid to leave a toddler in the car at all though...


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Re: Negligence
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2007, 10:05:38 PM »
What an unfortunate event  :(

I agree though, how the hell do you forget about your child for 8 hours?
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Re: Negligence
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2007, 04:11:31 AM »
At least the kid won't carry it's mother's genes.
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Re: Negligence
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2007, 04:16:05 PM »
No charges?  I suppose you can give the argument that losing your child to your own idiocy is punishment enough.  Except for the fact that she obviously didn't care enough to remember she had LEFT THE KID IN THE CAR for 8 hours . . .
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Re: Negligence
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2007, 11:00:17 PM »
 >:(
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Re: Negligence
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2007, 02:28:48 PM »
While I admit that it would be terrible to lose your child, I have to say that she should be thrown in jail.  Seriously, why should she get out of it, she killed someone.  Maybe not intentionally, but she did nonetheless.

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