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- September
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Did you all hear about the Ohio woman —an assistant principal at a grade school—that left her 2-year-old daughter in alone in a hot car by accident. She was not charged, though the toddler died. Her claim? She was so busy and agitated with her daily errands/work/juggling acts that she literally “forgot” her daughter was in the car. See story here.
I have to say, I can relate. I don’t think any of us can judge. What do you think?
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Not for 8 hours. I am sorry.
where did she think the girl was the whole time?
both my wife and I have never, and could never think of doing that, first thing we do is check the back seat.
I am sure it was a horrible accident and this mother has already paid the price.
But I can’t relate. sorry.
I have to say that I can’t relate either. I can relate to being very busy and overwhelmed at times, but I just can’t imagine forgetting my child was in the car. What is particularly disturbing to me if you read the story link is that surveillance cameras saw the woman go to her car 5 times and move it once. Did she really not see her daughter all those times? It is also reported that she left her daughter in her car on several other occasions. Seems like negligence to me, but I’m no lawyer, just sad for the poor family and little girl.
the rest of the facts are horrific – she went to the car five times?????? either she was a major drug addict/alcoholic or she hated this child and wanted her dead
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This is sick. Jeanne, come on, this woman should go to jail. You don’t forget your kid is in your car for 8 hours.
Geez,are you kidding me! Going back 5 times,at least recless (spelling) endangerment.What a disgrace. all those times back at the car,and not once,oh yea my daughter is there.the suffering of that child,she(mom)should go to jail.People are there for less. ahh.I`m angry over this.I could go on.JAIL.
That is terrible not a mother figure at all im sure you parents all get at wit ends with us lot
Who has been watching the news about the young girl whom went missing
The girl Madeleine mcann
do you think her mother killed her
i dont think so
jerry maybe
i think it was set up if you ask me leaving all the windows and doors open to make it look like a kidnapping
god there are some sicko’s out there….....!
I can see it too, Jeanne. The details of the Ohio case make it seem more suspicious, unlike another woman who did the same thing in Ocoee, Florida, last week. Usually her husband drops the kid off at daycare. She was supposed to on just one day, so by rote she drove to the office instead and went to work. The child died in the backseat.
While I like to think I’d never do that, I did once. I was at home with a new baby (about seven weeks old) and had my brother, his wife and their two little kids visiting, plus at least part of my regular workload. I dropped my older son at preschool then went home. My brother came in a few minutes later and said, “Where’s the baby?” I said, “What babe … .” Thank goodness he showed up. I like to think I would have noticed, but I was sleep deprived and dealing with difficult company and worried about work and absolutely exhausted—and there’s no way to know for sure. It was February (in Florida) and chilly.
We all have routines and they’re hard to change. We do get wrapped up in work and forget things. I don’t think we should be so judgemental of these mothers. The mother in Florida is so distraught that most of the officials are hoping not to have to prosecute her.
Do I think we CAN judge? Maybe. Do I think we SHOULD? Absolutely not. That woman is in enough anguish already. She has to live with this for the rest of her life. Nothing a judge does to her can top that.
The Union Township police report on the girl’s death said that Nesselroad-Slaby left the girl in a car on “numerous occasions,” including at least once in the week prior to the girl’s death.
it’s important to find out if this woman is on medication, an alcoholic, drug addict, mentally ill—something is very wrong
we’re assuming this woman cares – if you’ve ever been around alcoholics and drug addicts, they’re disconnected, they don’t care and the worst thing is not losing a child to them, it’s taking away their addictions
more than likely she’ll have more children and we’ll be reading about them again
That does make things sound different. It’s a pain to take a baby or toddler out of a car seat, put him/her back in, set up the stroller, deal her fussing while you’re in the store, etc. Most of us do it anyway because we’d never ever purposely leave our kid in the car. So maybe the New Jersey woman had this all coming. Maybe she’s lazy and selfisih. I wouldn’t say the same for the Florida woman, who does not have that history. She simply followed her daily routine, which doesn’t involve dropping her child off at daycare, and simply, truly forgot.
Wow. What I can relate to is being exhausted, distracted, busy and unfocused. What I cannot relate to is forgetting my child ANYWHERE for that length of time. In other words, as a mother of three, I am always thinking of one or all of them at some point or another throughout the day. If Im food shopping, I’m buying for them. If I’m doing laundry, you better believe I’m washing tiny jeans and onesies..
they cannot escape my mind even if I wanted them to. I truly think this woman has a screw loose. Many times I’m driving to work and I think I have them with me and check and double check the car seats before leaving the car.
I do not want to judge (lest ye be judged) but I thought there was a strict, enforced law regarding leaving children in a car unattended for even a second. This child was not an infant. If you know anything about the human body and what she had to have gone through, it makes my heartbreak and my stomach burn. When left in a hot car, the body starts to dehydrate. It is one of the most painful and devastating processes to the human body. That little girl suffered tremendously. I know this mother will have to live with this for the rest of her life. But that child has no life. Bottom line.. this person should not be in the care of another child. She is clearly not competent.
Rona, you’re confusing me – as I read this the woman in Ohio is in Union Township, Ohio, not Union Township NJ?
But I read it as she’s done this before – therefore I question who she is – we all look at someone as speaking our language and feeling the same as we do, but knowing many women who are alcoholics, drug addicts, on psychotropic drugs, they do not think as we do and don’t feel as we do. Am I reading this wrong?
Brenda Nesselroad-Slaby will not face criminal charges for leaving her daughter Cecelia Slaby in a hot sport-utility vehicle Aug. 23 for more than eight hours, the Clermont County prosecutor’s office said.
The Union Township police report on the girl’s death said that Nesselroad-Slaby left the girl in a car on “numerous occasions,” including at least once in the week prior to the girl’s death.