No. Sorry. I have very little sympathy for the EXCUSE of this type of behavior being a "symptom of our society".
Come off it! You FORGOT that you had your CHILD in the car with you? You FORGOT that you were supposed to take that child to daycare?
I AGREE, where was the mother of the child, calling the father to find out if he did, in fact, drop the child off at daycare.
WHAT IN GOD'S NAME could this father have had on his mind that was so important that he FORGOT that he had a small child in his care?
No! The fact that this is happening "more and more" means it needs to be looked at and addressed for what it is. Intentional? Probably not.
Negligence? Absolutely! Folks, if this is NOT negligence, WHAT IS?
"Just an accident?" Accidents are PREVENTABLE! This poor child's death was PREVENTABLE!
Herre's an article about this incident:
http://www.newschannel9.com/articles/police_11893___article.html/car_child.html
NewsChannel 9 has learned that a motion detector sounded an alarm several times yesterday before a father found his son's lifeless body inside his 2002 BMW. Robert Reid faces charges of criminally negligent homicide and aggravated child abuse and neglect. Police say Reid dropped off his older children at a local school but failed to drop off his youngest child at daycare. It was seven hours later when Reid found the boy unresponsive in his car. Lt. Tim Carroll with the Chattanooga Police Dept. says that apparently Reid's car, like many BMW's, is equipped with an interior motion alarm. Lt. Carroll said, "You forget to pick up a gallon of milk. You forget an appointment. But you do not forget that you have a 15-month old in the back of a car."
Lt. Carroll said the motion alarm was activated in Reid's car several times yesterday and the father apparently used his remote entry device to silence the alarm. The 15-month-old baby was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said the temperature in the car reached 142 degrees.