Don’t forget the baby

Lincoln Russell 16 Mar, 2009 at 9:24am ET Article published in Tech

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   16 Mar 2009 ~ 10:29am Snarkasm

   Several people -- including Mary Parks of Blacksburg -- have driven from their workplace to the day-care center to pick up the child they'd thought they'd dropped off, never noticing the corpse in the back seat.

   
   omfhorrible
   
   Breaks my heart.
2. 
   16 Mar 2009 ~ 11:24am Linc The article is a heart-wrenching masterpiece.
3. 
   16 Mar 2009 ~ 11:26am Thrax ^ This. There were many times when I didn't want to read any more, but the marriage of palpable grief to profound insight kept me reading.
4. 
   16 Mar 2009 ~ 11:30am Linc I stopped for a while and came back to it after posting it.
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   16 Mar 2009 ~ 11:32am TiberiusLazarus

   forgetting he'd had the boy in the car, leaving him to bake to death outside his home

   
   the wording...its just...
6. 
   16 Mar 2009 ~ 4:07pm LIN Heartbreaking...
7. 
   16 Mar 2009 ~ 5:27pm GnomeQueen Now I'm SO scared that some day I'm going to do this. Do want baby alarm.
8. 
   16 Mar 2009 ~ 9:00pm QCH I've done something like this on a much smaller scale. I've forgot to buckle Braeden because I got distracted buckling Piper. Freaked me out when I got to the store 2 miles away....
   
   I've also left my work and realized I forgot Piper at daycare because my wife normally picks her up... Luckily I was only 10 minutes away when I remembered.
   
   It freaks me out to think that I can be so distracted and/or in a rut as to forget a child. These stories really, really scare me. I can not imagine how horrible the parents feel or the lifetime of pain they will go through.
9. 
   17 Mar 2009 ~ 2:33am Leonardo I quit the article half way through - the feeling of sadness and sickness was too much.
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    17 Mar 2009 ~ 10:27am Linc Leo, the last 6 paragraphs give a little hope after wading through that morass of sadness, if you want to skip to it.