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There is a federal law passed last year that manufacturers must put safety devices in cars by 2010. However this does not retro fit all of the old cars that we see in the community. Many laws serve as an educational tool because these incidents are far too many by their caregiver thinking that just a minute in the store won't hurt but that minute turns into 15 and by that point children are in danger.
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just a few days ago i went to a local grocery store in the middle of the day. as i was walking from my car to the store, i noticed an infant in a car with no one else in it. as i was digging through my purse to get a pen to write down the tag number, a person came running out of the store and hopped in the car and left before i could get this information. this is just awful as i know it happens all the time. There is no mistake about it. How in the world could anyone forget they have a child with them?
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Sometimes I wonder if people see the flip side to creating a law that prosecutes everyone for leaving a child in a car. A parent that has accidentally left a child, that passes away, would be further tormented by prosecution. There are laws to prosecute people when they neglect a child intentionally, but does anyone ever do this intentionally. I doubt it. Therefore I struggle to believe a law would be helpful. If you prove intent the person is most definitely prosecuted. Unfortunately we live in a society where this happens all too often, and there are many other solutions and contributing factors. There are solutions that would not add further to the demise and mental torture that a person who accidentally leaves a child in a car, suffers from; especially if it is the primary caregiver for a family that is mourning the loss of one of their own due to this sort of tragedy. I am against laws prosecuting the unattending...however I am for...forcing car manufacturers to undo the harm they have caused by creating airbags. A simple $5 alarm would fix this problem...but there simply is not a law forcing the car manufacturers to keep this children safe. There was never before, a recorded incidence of this...before the invention of the air bag.
Posted by: Parent of Hyperthermia Victim
thanks for an informative, though hard to read article. i have heard, read this story many times, but still learned quite a bit in your account. about the law passed by hawaii and arizona -- every state should pass a similar law as soon as possible without delay.
Posted by: gary ryan (aslyn's uncle)
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