11mo ago

Mother arrested in Texas after baby dies in hot car

abcnews.go.com

A Texas mother was taken into custody Tuesday after police alleged her 22-month-old child died when she left the infant in a car outside a Corpus Christi school on one of the hottest days of the year.

The mother, 33-year-old Hilda Ann Adame, was jailed on charges of causing serious bodily injury to a child and child endangerment/abandonment with imminent bodily injury, according to a Corpus Christi Police Department incident report.

It was not clear how long the infant had been in the car before the baby was found unresponsive, according to the incident report.

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10mo ago

Mother arrested in Texas after baby dies in hot car

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This shit is so sad. I watched a video a few years ago explaining how exhaustion can lead to something like this happening, and it went into detail on how the brain tricks you into thinking that you really did drop your child off at daycare or wherever. It's terrifying and tragic.
- I accidentally left my baby in the car when I went shopping. I was so exhausted that I had forgotten I brought them. I was in the store about 5min and walked past the baby products and a spark went off I'm my head and bolted out of the store to the car. Luckily it was fall and the outside temps were in the 60s F. Never made that mistake again. I was paranoid after that.
  My rental car I have right now has a huge obnoxious pop up and alarm when shutting off the vehicle saying to not forget your kids. Technology can solve this issue easily. Just need to have a device fold old vehicles where you plug it into a power point and when your car turns off have a alarm go off. Could be a good shower gift.
  Edit: something like this https://a.co/d/4lvtwBP, guess it's already been invented. I'm gonna get something like this for all the pregnant ladies I know.
  
  My rental car I have right now has a huge obnoxious pop up and alarm when shutting off the vehicle saying to not forget your kids. Technology can solve this issue easily.
  Constant warnings when they aren't needed just leads to them being ignored with everything else. My in law's car had one that went off every time, even when the backseat was empty. It was as easy to ignore as all of the other pointless warnings that car had.
  
  Best advice I heard for this scenario is to take something you'll need, wallet, keys, phone, and place it in the car seat with the baby.
  
  They also make car seats that alert you if they’re buckled when you turn the car off
- I read a really good Op-Ed or magazine article a while ago (last few years) that dove into the subject, including the things you mention. Super heartbreaking and hard to simply blame the parent. Wish I could find it again, just so I could share it in threads like these.
Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)
- Sometimes it's an accident, sometimes it's straight up neglect
- did you read that article?
  
  No one is saying you are free to go. It certainly doesn't suffice.
  It's not an excuse, it's an explanation. It can happen to anyone.
- Yeah every other story I've heard about this says toddler I'm not sure why this headlines is differently
OP's name checks out.
- Do we have a "JFC Lemmy" sub yet? If not, I nominate this post =p
- Bruh 💀
Is this one of those post-birth abortions Republicans keep saying are happening?
OPEC arrested after humans die in hot planet
- Arrested by who, everyone is dead.
  We need to invent immortal robot overlords to keep arresting people after we're gone, clearly.
Damn I'm just reading there's been a second one in the same area. 9-month-old.
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I don't get how this keeps happening. Kids, dogs, adults, nobody should be left in a hot car. It's not a freakin' mystery, it happens all the time!
- It keeps happening because people are human and make mistakes.
  
  Best solution I heard to this is to take something you'll need... wallet, keys, phone, and stick it in the car seat with the baby.
  No forgetting.
This is another c/fuckcars post right there. If they would have walked/cycled/used transit this couldn’t have happened.
- I don't understand the downvotes, it's a reasonable observation.
  
  In a place like Texas, it is equivalent to saying "if they just used the teleporter this wouldn't have happened".
  It essentially shifts discussion off the matter at hand, into abstract, unsolvable issues.
  Before you jump on "unsolvable": I mean this mother, this particular family, has no immediate option to take another course, and not use cars.
  SOCIETY should move to a less car dependant future. THIS FAMILY has no power to enact that. Saying "just move" is a statement of privilege.
  
  Because it’s extremely fucked up to assume the person had a choice. Do you generally go around impoverished countries telling children they were stupid for choosing to be born in such a poor area?
  
  I'm all in on the fuck cars thing. I've wanted to get involved locally advocating for improved public transit and bike lanes. It's affected how I've ranked local candidates while voting.
  That said, this happened in Texas. The vast majority of that state is so carbrained that there aren't any viable alternatives to driving right now, and for a mother with kids it's so far away it'd take decades of work even if all of the Texas government woke up tomorrow and dedicated themselves to alternatives to cars. I don't drive and I live in one of the best cities for cyclists in the US and I'd still find it tough to go without a car if I had kids.
  In context the fuck cars comment just kinda comes across as victim blamey, tbh.
Completely avoidable. This should NEVER happen. That woman SHOULD be in prison.
Edit: Wow. Wasn't expecting all the downvotes but I'm sticking to my guns on this one. If your child neglect results in the death of the child you should absolutely go to prison.
- Most of these things are accidents due to exhaustion from the systemic grind. You don't know nearly enough to talk like that.
- Avoidable yes, should never happen yes, but what purpose does prison serve here?
  
  I'm not advocating for this, but obvious answer here would be at least temporary prevention of repeat events.
- You conclusion does not follow from the premises. Please develop your abilities to reason using syllogisms.
- Shouldn't happen in modern cars, keep a running thermal sensor, weight and accelerometer sensor in seat, send alert if weight remains and any accelormeter activity when temp above danger threshold. I do not think this is required but should be.

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