re: 2 Texas children die in hot car (....and here we go)

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That is certainly the question. WTF?

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Not much of a question. Anyone that believes that's true has no business doing investigative work.

Her story sounds pretty implausible to me.

How hot was it? How long would it take for the kids to die under the weather conditions at the time of the incident? I don't think this happens in five or ten minutes. If her story is true, which I doubt, the children would had to have been unsupervised for a longer period of time than is safe. You can hardly turn your back on a walking two year old. They'll be into something in a heartbeat.

The keys and phone detail really sounds odd to me. Not that the kids would play with them, but that they managed to get into the car with them. When she found them, if her keys weren't where she left them, the window should have been broken in under a minute. It shouldn't have significantly delayed rescuing the kids. Odd detail.

If I had to guess, she carried the groceries inside and put the milk in the fridge or whatever, then got distracted by a phone call or text or something. She later realizes the kids have been in the car for 45 minutes (or however long) and panics, so she makes up this stupid story. If this happened, she would have been way better off by coming clean and admitting she fricked up. (Or not talking to the cops at all. But the fake story is going to cause her problems.)

Or, on the other hand, maybe she was sick of being a mother, concocted this ridiculous alibi, and murdered them.

For those who think nothing like this could ever happen to them, I'll leave this example. A physician was supposed to drop his young daughter off at preschool. His wife usually did it, but could not that day. The father loads the child in the car and the kid goes to sleep. The father goes on autopilot and drives straight to his train station, as he's done every morning for years. Locks up the car, goes to the platform and gets on his train. A couple of minutes later, he realizes the child is still in the car. He immediately calls 911, gets off at the next station and returns to his car. The cops had already got the child out of the car when he got back. She was fine. She'd only been in there about 10 or 12 minutes and it was early, so it wasn't hot. Obviously, the father was very distressed, but was fortunate that his brain fart didn't turn into a tragedy.

Of course, he got grilled by the cops, but it soon became pretty obvious that the guy had no ill intent. He just fricked up. He ended up doing some media interviews to raise awareness about the problem. He was smart, successful, and considered by all who knew him to be a loving and attentive parent. But it happened to him.

She was negligent and left her kids in the car which is a crime. The fact that she concocted a story to try to cover up or "excuse" her negligence makes me believe she is more worried about the consequences she faces rather than the fact she just lost 2 children. Some posters have been correct that studies have shown it's possible to forget you had your kids in the car without being a lazy POS (would rather just leave them in the car while they run in to grocery store so they don't have to tote them around for example).

No idea what happened here but some two year olds are more than capable of getting in a car and closing the door, what I am doubting is the 1 year old climbing in after her.

As a new father of 6 month old twins this is one of my biggest nightmares. Unfortunately I'm reminded of how real this nightmare can be way to often by reading stories like these. I drop my girls off at day car 2-3 times a week and after dropping them off and heading to work I catch myself checking the back seat several times even though I know I dropped them off. I feel very confident that I am aware enough to not ever have this happen to me, but reading articles like this reinforces it to an almost paranoia point.

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The brain is a funny thing.

Go read the stats on it. There really is very little difference across numerous demographics.

It doesn't seem to matter your race, education level, socioeconomic status.

However, one of the most common ways it occurs is when people have a change in their daily routine. Their brain goes into auto pilot, and sleeping kids get forgotten about.

This is really tragic, and shouldn't be lumped in with idiots who intentionally leave kids in the car to run an errand.

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I know pointing out facts is unpopular in a thread like this, but leaving kids in the car is prevalent enough that they are making alarms on baby seats standard equipment. With that said, this lady's story sounds a bit suspect

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can't imagine they would be able to open the car door, climb in the vehicle, close the door, lock the door.

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I guess I can see a kid getting in and closing it --- and maybe accidentally locking it with the fob and not getting how to unlock it after?

Still it's taking the kids being aware enough to string together wanting to take the phone to play with, the keys as mimicking the routine getting in the car for fun and accidentally locking the door. Even if the kid would be capable to enact that with instructions from a parent it seems very much like a long shot to do it solo while instructing a 1 year old themselves.

And that's before even answering where's mom

Her story has one glaring flaw that will be her undoing. This one detail is so impossible that it destroys all of her credibility:

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when she found them, one of the children had her cellphone

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No woman is ever without her cell phone for more than 5 minutes.

I rest my case, your Honor.

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Her story is bullshite. She left her kids in the car. It's probably innocent and she forgot them, but that's a fatal mistake, and she's going to have to live with that

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Yep. No way a two and one year-old were able to take her keys, get the car open, climb in the car, then figure out how to lock the car. Kids just aren't able to do those things at that age.

Let me guess, all the shitty parents are saying "It could happen to ANYONE leaving kids in the car!"