GA - Twins Ariel & Alaynah North, 16 mos, die in hot car, Carrollton, 4 Aug 2017

Police: Twins dead after being found in hot car in Georgia | [urlwww.ajc.com[/url]
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TV station WXIA reports ( http://on.11alive.com/2aprJE4 ) someone found the girls Thursday in the back seat of an SUV parked in front of a duplex in Carrollton.
Carrollton Police Department Capt. Chris Dobbs tells the station that when officers arrived, they were directed behind the duplex to a baby pool, where people were holding the girls in the water and some had ice packs. They told officers they were trying to cool the girls off.
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http://m.ajc.com/ap/ap/georgia/police-twins-dead-after-being-found-in-hot-car-in-/nr9zm/

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So the mother goes out of town and returns to find her two babies dead.....I can't imagine. I hate these stories and can't bare to think about what these two little ones went through. Glad the father was charged.
 
This should not be a trend for these poor babies :(
 
Astonishing, heartbreaking, and completely preventable tragedy-- again, sadly-- even more tragic and gut wrenching because the girls were twins. No word yet on the circumstances under which the girls were left or forgotten in the hot car.

There have been 26 (now 28) hot car deaths of infants and small children in 2016 thus far, and an average of 37 a year. As a nation, we simply cannot accept 37 dead kids in hot cars every year-- we simply MUST work better and harder on fixing this problem.

Total number of U.S. heatstroke deaths of children left in cars, 2016: 26
Total number of U.S. heatstroke deaths of children left in cars, 2015: 24
Total number of U.S. heatstroke deaths of children left in cars, 1998-present: 687
Average number of U.S. child heatstroke fatalities per year since 1998: 37
See Monthly Statistics
See Statistics by State

http://noheatstroke.org/

Asa North's mugshot has been released:

https://twitter.com/FOX5Atlanta/status/761542318897958912

https://twitter.com/hashtag/fox5atl?src=hash
 
I just now saw on the news , a bit of a backstory. It is very sad. The mother of the twin girls, had to go see her sister an hour away in a hospital, after her sister had been in a serious car accident. While the mother was there, she got the call that her daughters had been in the hot car and were unconscious. So tragic to get that horrible call.

The neighbors heard the father screaming out for help, as he found the babies in the hot car. I don't know what time it was, or how long it had been. But they tried reviving the babies in a kiddie pool with ice packs. So they may have had pulse rates still at that time?

I feel very sorry for the father because I think this may have been an unusual situation. And a stressful one. So Dad might have been very distracted and may not have been the usual routine schedule for him.

Parents REALLY need to use the Teddy Bear system, or the wallet in the back seat system, or SOMETHING, to prevent these tragic, needless deaths. :rose: :rose:

My precious granddaughter is 15 months old. I cannot imagine the sorrow and grief that this mom must be feeling to lose two precious girls so suddenly like this.
 
Astonishing, heartbreaking, and completely preventable tragedy-- again, sadly-- even more tragic and gut wrenching because the girls were twins. No word yet on the circumstances under which the girls were left or forgotten in the hot car.

There have been 26 (now 28) hot car deaths of infants and small children in 2016 thus far, and an average of 37 a year. As a nation, we simply cannot accept 37 dead kids in hot cars every year-- we simply MUST work better and harder on fixing this problem.



http://noheatstroke.org/

Asa North's mugshot has been released:

https://twitter.com/FOX5Atlanta/status/761542318897958912

https://twitter.com/hashtag/fox5atl?src=hash

that's the problem, there's nothing WE can do. either parents want to let their kids die or they don't. it doesn't take a village to leave a child in a hot car, it takes a parent that's looking for a murder method that they very well MIGHT get away with. seems like lots more men than women pull this.
 
I just saw this on Facebook feed, and I think they suspect or maybe even charged the father for intoxication. I'll check for links.
 
Yes it is in one of the local news links cited in above thread. Father was "extremely" intoxicated and combative. Two precious ones had to go through torture. So it wasn't like the "poor" father had an unusual routine that was distracting.
 
Awww. That is very sad. He probably drove them home while drunk too. What a . I take back my concern for him and shower the poor grieving mom with it instead. :candle:
 
Drunk

eta That should go down well with the other inmates in the jail he goes to.
 
Apparently, Asa North was drinking heavily with his cousin, Travis North.

Police: Father was intoxicated when twins died in hot car

According to the Carrollton Police Department incident report an officer arrived to find Travis North "extremely intoxicated and was combative." According to relatives, Travis North is a second cousin of Asa North, the father of the twins. Police say Asa was also intoxicated when police arrived, but not nearly to the level of Travis.

"Some of the statements he made on the scene don't match what he said during our interviews. So we have some blanks we have to fill in," said Carrollton Police Capt. Chris Dobbs.

Neighbors told 11Alive's Ryan Kruger that they saw Asa and Travis North drinking together all day.

http://www.11alive.com/news/local/police-father-was-intoxicated-when-twins-died-in-hot-car/288333629


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The whole situation is infuriating. I hope he enjoyed his drinking binge-- it's the last one he'll have for a long while. I think he will get prison time for this. The autopsies will tell how long the girls were dead, and his blood alcohol level will fill in a lot of blanks, because no matter what it was when they took it, it was a heckuva lot higher while those girls were baking to death in that car.

Worse yet, the mother of the girls is DEFENDING him-- "he made a mistake."

&#8220;He&#8217;s a great father&#8230; He&#8217;s a great father. He just made a mistake,&#8221; said Ellis. &#8220;He&#8217;s very heartbroken... He broke down crying. He know he made a mistake.&#8221;

http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/185487724-story

A mistake??? Getting so drunk you FORGET about your TWIN BABY DAUGHTERS in a hot car, strapped in their car seats, is not a "mistake". Choosing to get so drunk that he forgot about his daughters, fell asleep, or passed out, is an "ON PURPOSE" act. Not a "mistake". GRRRR.
 
I have no words what a tragedy. The father is totally to blame for this but why on earth did the cousin agree to go on an all day bender with the dad when they knew he had two little ones to look after? I can't imagine what the mom is going through a sister seriously injured, two dead daughters and a husband in jail. R.I.P little ones.

In regard to hot car deaths with infants surely car manufacturers can develop something like stopping the car from locking and sounding an alarm when weight is detected in the child seats when a car is stationary with the engine off. There must be a way to tackle this issue but in cases like this with an incompetent parent these tragedies might not be totally preventable.
 
I have to wonder if the girls initially fell asleep in their car seats, and the men were "relieved" that they were quiet, finally, and they could do as they pleased while they slept.

Toddlers at 16 months old are usually very active, in perpetual motion, exploring everything, and very needing of constant supervision by an adult. At 16 months, they likely could walk, and were toddling all over the place. It takes an immense amount of supervision to watch TWO active toddlers.

How did the twins end up in the car all alone in the first place? Did the men take them out to eat, for example, and then they fell asleep strapped in their car seats, tired because they didn't have their usual naps?

I can't shake the sense that these men were somehow glad, or content, or relieved, that the busy toddlers (with mom far away at another crisis) had finally fallen asleep, and were "quiet", so they were free to binge drink between themselves and socialize. Then the men fell asleep, or passed out, and the fate of the girls was sealed. (JMO-- speculation on my part.)
 
Mother of twin toddlers left in hot car defends father
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http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/185487724-story
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Signal systems are available:
http://betanews.com/2014/09/11/forg...technology-to-prevent-toddler-hot-car-deaths/
and more are planned.
However, parental supervision & care of children should be sufficient....

^ 2014 article projected production {{ETA: not availability}} in 30 days. Tried url mentioned in linked vid, forgetmenotkid.com and forgetmenot.com, got '404 page' type results.

Over the last few yrs, read about many products 'in the works' for same objective. Wish it could be made foolproof. JM2cts
 

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