Father Charged With Felony Murder in Son's Heat-Stroke Vehicle Death

It's not something to think about. It's an easy call. If I saw a child or pet left in a car on a hot day, I'd call the police. Why is this even a discussion, as if there is a grey area or something?

I lived for a long time in the desert and would see dogs in distress in a car occasionally. Out there folks would just break a window immediately. None of the arm waving and gnashing of teeth just boom a window was gone.
 
If a guy decides to leave his kid in the car while he pops out for a lengthy errand and the kid dies from being left there, that seems to me to be gross negligence or reckless conduct that is suitable for criminal prosecution. He made a conscious decision to leave the kid in that situation. He didn't intend for the kid to die, but intentionally exposed it to danger.

If he simply forgets he has the kid in the car, does that really rise to the same level of culpability? You could argue, and I suppose the state will, that it is gross negligence to forget you have the kid because you are held an elevated standard of care in that situation. Still, if I am on the jury, I would have trouble with convicting a dad who tragically forgot he had his kid.

The cops are talking about his internet searches and also have determined that he was slinging dick-picts while this happened. Not sure that makes him guilty of anything but it has the cops pretty worked up.
 
This case is troubling. Would he really be that stupid? To be sexting women while knowingly allowing his child to be burned to death? Then to go to his car with his friend like nothing was wrong?

I don't know. What I see is a tragedy and the police seizing on some unflattering things that really have nothing to do with the actual crime if there was one.

Take the sexting. It's very prejudicial. Here is this monster sending pics of his junk to some teenager while he is killing his baby. But if he were really intentionally frying his baby, would he be doing that? Is he really that dumb? He had to know the police would find it. If anything, it makes me doubt the police's version.

To me, the most damaging item is the claim that he frequently took the baby to Chik-fil-a and then day care. So it wasn't an unusual sequence that could have plausibly led to overlooking the presence of the baby.

I don't know. I don't want to rush to judgment, and I would hate to be on the jury.
 
To me, the most damaging item is the claim that he frequently took the baby to Chik-fil-a and then day care. So it wasn't an unusual sequence that could have plausibly led to overlooking the presence of the baby.

I don't know. I don't want to rush to judgment, and I would hate to be on the jury.

That and the life insurance. Not that 25 grand is enough to make you want to whack your kid, but WTF takes out life insurance on your tyke?
 
This case is troubling. Would he really be that stupid? To be sexting women while knowingly allowing his child to be burned to death? Then to go to his car with his friend like nothing was wrong?

I don't know. What I see is a tragedy and the police seizing on some unflattering things that really have nothing to do with the actual crime if there was one.

Take the sexting. It's very prejudicial. Here is this monster sending pics of his junk to some teenager while he is killing his baby. But if he were really intentionally frying his baby, would he be doing that? Is he really that dumb? He had to know the police would find it. If anything, it makes me doubt the police's version.

To me, the most damaging item is the claim that he frequently took the baby to Chik-fil-a and then day care. So it wasn't an unusual sequence that could have plausibly led to overlooking the presence of the baby.

I don't know. I don't want to rush to judgment, and I would hate to be on the jury.

I don't think sexting will have any impact in this case. Him googling about leaving a kid in a car is another thing though....wow.
 
I'm not a big fan of resurrecting threads like this, but I heard an awesome and simple way to avoid this type of tragedy from occurring. First, I'm not someone who will ever be distracted enough to forget my child in the car seat - but whenever I see people I tell them this trick: Take your left shoe off and put it in the back seat. It's a simple trick to help remind yourself that there is a need to check the back before leaving the car.
 
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