A Texas mother has been arrested after police alleged her 22-month-old child died when left the infant in a hot car in Corpus Christi.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18901880

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.

  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
    1514·
    4 months ago

    Parents do not need to teach kids to bang on doors. Geez.

    Parents need to be responsible and not leave their own kids in a car to die, or don’t be parents in the first place.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      164·
      4 months ago

      Shit happens, even with loving parents. Do you know what it feels like to have four hours of sleep non-contiguous each day for three years? That’s some parents’ experience.

      Teaching your kids to survive regardless of your parenting doesn’t mean you’re a bad parent. It means you care about your kids enough to do everything possible to make sure they survive.

      • BambiDiego@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        Sensibly, you’re right.

        In the real world, there’s no excuse, just explanations.

        A 2 year old just cannot be expected to handle a crisis of any sort. You can teach them to be careful, to be aware, to be expressive, to be communicative, but never to handle a real crisis.

        • Telorand@reddthat.com
          31·
          4 months ago

          Just gotta do your best, and hopefully you’ve done enough to ensure they survive to adulthood.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      93·
      4 months ago

      This mistake happens to mature, professional people, of no discernable background, race, income. First parents, second parents. Doctors, layers, teachers, janitors.

      Habit distribution, sleep deprivation and distraction have no pattern of afflicting only some cluster of “irresponsible” people, in so much that anyone could determine who is in, or out of that “irresponsible” group. Including you.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        42·
        4 months ago

        He has five children. Today, he says, is the birthday of his sixth.

        Get this man some condoms. No parent has enough time to properly raise six children. I think it’s cruel to the kids to just keep having them.