How many deaths will it take till we learn

[saintsfanbrian]

That too many people have died:

1-Year-Old Tenn. Boy Left in Car Dies

By BILL POOVEY, Associated Press Writer

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - A 1-year-old boy died after being left alone in a car for hours as temperatures soared into the 80s, and his father was charged with negligent homicide, police said.

Timothy Reid was found unresponsive by his father, Robert Reid, Tuesday afternoon, nearly seven hours after Reid had parked the car and went to work. Emergency workers pronounced the toddler dead at the scene and said the temperature inside the car was 142 degrees.

Reid, 43, was charged with criminally negligent homicide and aggravated child abuse and neglect, Lt. Tim Carroll said Wednesday.

"The punishment is done regardless of what happens in court," Carroll said. "He is torn up. He reacted the way a parent should react who has lost a child."

Police said Reid took his three other children, ages 6, 10 and 12, to school Tuesday morning and had intended to take Timothy to day care before driving to work.

Investigators said Reid instead went to work and left the boy in the car seat. The boy was discovered when Reid went to his car to go pick up the children that afternoon.

"You can forget to pick up a gallon of milk, but you don't forget you left a 15-month-old in your car," Carroll said.

The outside temperature Tuesday reached 89 degrees, just one degree shy of a record for the date, according to the National Weather Service.

Reid was released on a $15,000 bond pending a May 23 court hearing; records show he did not yet have a lawyer. A woman who answered the phone at Unishippers, the business owned by the boy's parents, said no one was making any comment Wednesday.

[molonlabetn]

That's...... heart-wrenching...

What more can be said?

[jeepbus]

I saw this on the news and was left in awe.Can't belive someone can co that to thier own kid.How do you forget your kid.