its perplexing alright but we cant judge mate, its a horrendous accident and all we can do is show the poor family empathy
it happens on occasion in Brissy. One notable occasion was when a compulsive gambler went into the pokies, said she would go in for 1 game and ended up staying for hours
Mother was only recently finished maternity leave, the father would only have been dropping the child off at the creche in recent weeks. I could very easily imagine it happening. Get distracted by a work phone call, park up and rush straight into work, tear into a job and next thing you know 3 or 4 hours have passed. Itâs horrific, and I think bar the obvious, one of the main reasons this really hits home is that a lot of people could imagine themselves doing (or have done) something similar.
The cunt should be charged imo
how could you forget about a baby ffs?
Absolutely. Even in the house. How many times have you been heading to get something as trivial as a bottle of milk out of the fridge for example. The phone rings or the doorbell goes and when itâs finished, you canât even remember what you were doing in the first place
FIVE AND A HALF HOURS
charged with what mate?
Iâm not sure.
Iâm a walking disaster zone, but leaving the baby in the car for hours I donât think even I would do. I donât think âit could happen to anyoneâ is quite true. It happens rarely given the number of babies and kids driven round the place.
I think itâs awful awful luck that it coincided with a freak hot day, any normal day and the baba would have been none the worse for wear.
It doesnât bear thinking about. The poor baby and the poor family.
Neglect
A mate of mine has a 40 odd minute commute to work and he drops the child to crèche on the way a few mornings a week, the crèche is about 10 mins from the house. 2-3 times heâs found himself half way to work and forgotten to drop the child off but thankfully never made it to work and had something like this happen.
The tiredness you endure for the first year and dealing with that period where the mother goes back to work is something that you have to go through to understand. Thereâs no point even trying to explain it someone whoâs never done it. Youâre like a zombie for a lot of the time. Itâs nuts to think about it looking back on it.
None of that makes what happens acceptable or justifies it. I can understand how it happened though as scary as it sounds.
Exactly. I wasnât saying it âcould happen to anyoneâ but I could see how it would happen.
sure mac, a mate
Sigh
On Newstalk there now
Its a tragedy. If it happened any other day of the year heâd have came out and the child would have been fine but of course it was a scorching hot day. Obviously it was a cruel twist of fate and careless on his part whatever the mitigating circumstances (tiredness/stress) that he forgot she was in the back seat but he will live a life sentence now over this in his head every day for the rest of his life and there will be no-one tougher on him than himself. Iâd be inclined to leave them to grieve if I was authorities/press.
V tragic situation but if you left a 7 month old alone for 5 hours on another day they might not have died but they would have been severely distressed pretty quickly
Under normal circumstances the baby would have been fine I suspect.
The poor people. All of them.
Once the gardai are happy it wasnât intentional, they should leave the family be I think.
Iâm not sure whether they would be forced to take a case?
I canât understand how you would forget the baby. Anyway tragic situation and the father has to live with that. Jesus I couldnât even imagine what he is going through.
Iâd say they will definitely have to take a case. Not sure what it will achieve mind you
There is no point. The man has enough to deal with the rest of his life without inflicting that on him as well.