2y ago

A baby and a dog died after being left in a car for about six hours, police say

www.nbcnews.com

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Caretaker went out at 1am and returned home around 8pm and left them in the car. No chance she wasn’t loaded on some mind-altering substance. Know your limits, people.
- Gabapentin according to https://www.wtkr.com/news/york-poquoson-sheriffs-office-release-info-on-arrest-in-death-11-month-old
Aww, this kind of heartbreaking news is why I don’t follow news at all nowadays. That poor dog.
- Did you miss the part where a human baby died too?
  
  I remember reading somewhere that Hollywood picked up on audiences' propensity to be more emotionally invested in the well-being of dogs, even if they're unnamed brand new characters and there are humans dying all around them.
  
  Yeah but the dog tho
Unbelievably sad. I recall reading a Pulitzer prize winning article about this scenario and it is the most heartbreaking thing you can read.
This situation sounds a little more negligent than most, but I'll withhold any judgement and mourn the child's loss.
The article in question, for anyone looking for an emotionally devastating read this morning: https://web.archive.org/web/20140617051424/http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html
- This really doesn't fit into the category of horrifying mistake. As far as I can tell she left them in the car all night while she partied with a friend, drove home at 8am, and left them in the car while she slept it off. I'm not saying she deliberately tried to harm them but this is a series of grossly negligent actions, not the kind of horrific (and easy to make) mistake that the article you linked is talking about.
How many cigarettes ~~dis~~ did she buy?
Not fair, the cops wanted to kill them.

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