Every few weeks, or months, especially in the summer there are reports here in Israel of horrendous tragedies, children, babies dying or becoming brain-damaged after being left for hours, forgotten, in their parents' car. On occasion, it's a van (school bus) driver, but generally the story is of parents, each thought that the other had brought the sleeping baby in the house and put him/her in the bed.
Years ago, in the days when either there wasn't car airconditioning or windows were still left open, people would hear the child crying, or if the kid was asleep, the car air was safer. Also, years ago you didn't have a carseat for every kid up to school age.
There's news now of a Boston cabby who drove a family home from the airport in one of those large bus-like vans. He checked as well as he could from the outside and trusted the family to take all their valuables. Yep! They left a sleeping baby. He's in legal hot water, and the parents aren't.
I'm sure that they counted their suitcases...
It's very sad to hear these stories. I've actually written about this once. Major Irresponsibility.
ReplyDeleteAt least in this case the child wasn't injured.
ReplyDeletewe have similar things happening here where I live as it is hot all year round (even through winter the average is 25 degrees)
ReplyDeleteGood to hear the little one was ok.
Yes, B"H
ReplyDeleteSo that means, that you'll have a very hot summer, bli eyin haraa.