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.

  • Telorand
    6·
    25 days ago

    That would suck to be arrested after accidentally (even if it was pure stupidity) killing your child. My car got to 122 recently. That’s an unthinkably bad day.

    Parents, teach your kids how to bang on the door as early as you can, so they can at least ask for help in the event they’re strapped into a car seat and can’t escape.

    • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
      15·
      25 days 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
        16·
        25 days 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·
          23 days 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
            3·
            23 days ago

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

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        25 days 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
          4·
          24 days 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.