Extra Credit

This article is about a father of a 15 month old boy who died of vehicular homicide in July of this year. The father was just charged with negligent homicide after turning himself in to authorities. The father claims he was supposed to drop his son off at daycare and go to work. After work, when he went to go get his son, he was informed that his son never made it to daycare and he found out that his son was still in his car. He claims that when he found this out he drove to the hospital immediately, but it was too late and his son died from hyperthermia. In August, a state medical examiner ruled the boys death a homicide. A similar case to this happened just a month before in Atlanta. The story was almost identical to that of the Atlanta incident.
I believe that something like this should never happen. How can somebody “forget” their child in the car when the reason why they drove to that place was for their child. It just seems like common sense to remember your child. It would seem as though the father did not actually go to the daycare and just went straight to work. He then left his child in the car all day and then drove to the daycare to try and cover his tracks. This should never happen, and it is very irresponsible to leave your child in the car. Obviously, this case wasn’t an accident but it is a very heinous crime.