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FALL RIVER, Mass. -- Massachusetts authorities are investigating the death of a 1-year-old girl who apparently died after being left strapped into her mother's SUV in a store parking lot for seven hours.
Fall River police are trying to determine whether criminal charges will be filed, reported Boston TV station WCVB.
No one noticed that the girl was missing until the baby's grandmother asked where the child was when the toddler failed to return home on a day-care school bus Wednesday.
The grandmother reportedly said, "'Where's my kid?'" according to Denise Monteiro, of the state Department of Social Services. "She calls the school, the father, the mother, then they discovered the baby in the car seat,"
The girl was strapped into her car seat parked at a strip mall where her mother was working all day. The child was supposed to have been dropped off at day care and then return on a day-care bus with two older siblings.
Temperatures inside the car where the girl was found could have risen to at least 100 degrees, according to DSS officials. The baby was taken to Charlton Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
"Right now, it just looks like a tragic, tragic series of events. The mother is totally distraught. She's beside herself," Monteiro told the Boston Globe.
DSS officials said they have no records of any previous cases with the girl's family, which is from New Bedford, Mass. They refused to identify the child or the mother.
The story is so tragic, so senseless- but I have to ask- How does one go about forgetting their child in a car for all that time? It's not that this is the first case we have ever heard of- but I still have to ask. I personally don't know how anyone could forget their child anywhere. What you just let it slip your mind that you didn't drop the kid off at daycare? Even on my most crazy days I have never forgotten my kids in a car- or anywhere for that matter. And I am a very forgettful person to begin with. Ask Tim, I lose and forget things all day long. I can walk into a room and forget to walk out with whatever I was going in there to get. But not once have I ever forgotten one of my kids somewhere. I know you all see me as some really clever completely on the ball smart sort of wonder woman- but I am not. I'm a bit grumpy and dazed in the mornings, somewhat goofy in the afternoons, and down right air headed at night. Okay- I am not all of it - just grumpy and forgetful. Very forgetful. And yet I can happily assure you that I have not once forgotten my kids. Just how empty headed to you have to be to do that?
FALL RIVER, Mass. -- Massachusetts authorities are investigating the death of a 1-year-old girl who apparently died after being left strapped into her mother's SUV in a store parking lot for seven hours.
Fall River police are trying to determine whether criminal charges will be filed, reported Boston TV station WCVB.
No one noticed that the girl was missing until the baby's grandmother asked where the child was when the toddler failed to return home on a day-care school bus Wednesday.
The grandmother reportedly said, "'Where's my kid?'" according to Denise Monteiro, of the state Department of Social Services. "She calls the school, the father, the mother, then they discovered the baby in the car seat,"
The girl was strapped into her car seat parked at a strip mall where her mother was working all day. The child was supposed to have been dropped off at day care and then return on a day-care bus with two older siblings.
Temperatures inside the car where the girl was found could have risen to at least 100 degrees, according to DSS officials. The baby was taken to Charlton Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
"Right now, it just looks like a tragic, tragic series of events. The mother is totally distraught. She's beside herself," Monteiro told the Boston Globe.
DSS officials said they have no records of any previous cases with the girl's family, which is from New Bedford, Mass. They refused to identify the child or the mother.
The story is so tragic, so senseless- but I have to ask- How does one go about forgetting their child in a car for all that time? It's not that this is the first case we have ever heard of- but I still have to ask. I personally don't know how anyone could forget their child anywhere. What you just let it slip your mind that you didn't drop the kid off at daycare? Even on my most crazy days I have never forgotten my kids in a car- or anywhere for that matter. And I am a very forgettful person to begin with. Ask Tim, I lose and forget things all day long. I can walk into a room and forget to walk out with whatever I was going in there to get. But not once have I ever forgotten one of my kids somewhere. I know you all see me as some really clever completely on the ball smart sort of wonder woman- but I am not. I'm a bit grumpy and dazed in the mornings, somewhat goofy in the afternoons, and down right air headed at night. Okay- I am not all of it - just grumpy and forgetful. Very forgetful. And yet I can happily assure you that I have not once forgotten my kids. Just how empty headed to you have to be to do that?
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