Baton Rouge 8 month old dies in hot car

There's no excuse for this.

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The child was not taken to the hospital by an ambulance, sources said, apparently by someone not affiliated with emergency care.

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I wonder if someone broke a window got that baby out and took them to the hospital.

RIP little baby and prayers sent that the POS parents don't try and sue the person trying to help.


(this post is complete speculation)

I can read about endless negative things in this world and it rarely phases me.

These stories, though, give me a panic attack and I have to step away and breathe. As a new father, I can't even fathom this.

"Being a parent is so hard"

This article on the topic explains a lot and won a Pulitzer. This is so tragically common: LINK

Two decades ago, this was relatively rare. But in the early 1990s, car-safety experts declared that passenger-side front airbags could kill children, and they recommended that child seats be moved to the back of the car; then, for even more safety for the very young, that the baby seats be pivoted to face the rear. If few foresaw the tragic consequence of the lessened visibility of the child . . . well, who can blame them? What kind of person forgets a baby?

The wealthy do, it turns out. And the poor, and the middle class. Parents of all ages and ethnicities do it. Mothers are just as likely to do it as fathers. It happens to the chronically absent-minded and to the fanatically organized, to the college-educated and to the marginally literate. In the last 10 years, it has happened to a dentist. A postal clerk. A social worker. A police officer. An accountant. A soldier. A paralegal. An electrician. A Protestant clergyman. A rabbinical student. A nurse. A construction worker. An assistant principal. It happened to a mental health counselor, a college professor and a pizza chef. It happened to a pediatrician. It happened to a rocket scientist.

that is terrible

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An EMS ambulance was called to Baton Rouge General Mid City where someone brought the child there after finding the child in the vehicle. There is no ER at the Mid City hospital location. The child was not taken to the hospital by an ambulance, sources said, apparently by someone not affiliated with emergency care. Authorities were told the child had been left in the vehicle for two hours.

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What a terrible situation altogether, but what kind of hospital doesn't have an ER?

If I drove someone to the nearest hospital in an emergency and they didn't have an ER I'd be furious.

These sensors or something like them should be incorporated into every child seat.LINK -
Just like how every car has built in latch, maybe a backseat connection port could be built in to the car.

I honestly can't get over how common this is. As soon as it starts to get hot you start hearing these stories. Mistakes happen, I get that, but I just don't understand forgetting a child is in the car.

It seems to happen enough that there needs to be some type of campaign about leaving children and animals in a vehicle.

This is an absolute nightmare.