So I know I am late to the party today.. I did see that the Police said that he searched for Kids dying in hot cars.
The problem I have with this is I have many times searched for the same statistics after a story like this. And also searched related things after this story came out.
I thought about it yesterday a long time. And I know that this was a pushing point for me before but as a parent who has googled a lot of crazy things since being here and seeing awful child deaths, Or drownings, or left in hot cars, I have googled all the same things. I just don't know if that is enough for anything.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/29/justin-ross-harris-search-kids-dying-cars_n_5541077.html
In my opinion, none of these strange things would be "enough for anything" if they existed entirely alone. But taken as a whole, the few facts we now know are extremely troubling.
The search alone would not be suspicious to any Websleuther, but he wasn't "sleuthing...let's just take his own explanation: he was searching how long it took to die...because he feared it happening to his child.
Now we learn the Mother also had this fear, and also acted on that fear to read about it. Okay. Now, I ask myself, what did these two fearful people DO with the knowledge they gained? Did they put a note on the dashboard..."ALWAYS check for BABY!" Did the one NOT driving call the other every day to ascertain the child had been dropped off? These things cost nothing. Here we had two very "worried" parents about a certain type of death. But, that worry led to NO, NADA , proactive precautions. I find the worry...followed by NO action...very strange.
Then we have the stop at Chik-Fil-A. He puts his hands on his child, removes him, eats, puts him back in. He is holding, touching, interacting with the child. HE has FIVE minutes left in his trip. Sorry, unless he was drugged at Chik-Fil-A, that is too much interaction and too short a time, to go brain dead about your Baby.
Then there is the question of the pattern of his drive to work. Distracted people follow routine. He didn't. He went right past that huge building where the daycare was. He turned in a different direction. If it can be shown that he dropped off every day, the presence of mind to go OFF pattern, in a different direction! shows an awareness IMO that is damning. I know we don't know the frequency that he was the drop off parent, but the daycare will know.
Then there is the size of that SUV and the fact that the car seat is right over his shoulder. You can hear a hair rubbing on the back of the car seat from that position. Any sort of wheeze, sniffle, bubble that Baby made was right under his ear practically. But in five minutes, he is in La-La land...heads to the wrong place, hears nothing...and exits not sending the child or car seat.
And finally, the noon drop by. If that child excreted anything...that car stank then. I know. I missed some vomit from my grandchild and then spent 2 hrs with her in a DR.s office. Fried vomit, fried feces...very hard to not notice.
So...I put all these things together. I add some common sense. And I gag with horror. It's the totality. Not just this or that.
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