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Scatterbrained? What a load of crap. Lousy parents is more like it.
Great parents put their children above all else and NEVER forget them in a car unattended...for ANY length of time. My mother never left me in a car (or any of my siblings). I lived with a woman who had children and she would never forget her children, no matter how busy she was. Never. Heck, I never forgot about them and they were not even my children.
The only people who forget about their children left unattended in a car are lousy parents...period.
And level of 'busyness' is no excuse whatsoever. Your children - especially if they are pre-school - should always be the most important thing in your lives and nothing should be able to make you 'scatterbrained' about them. Not your job, your friends, your health...nothing.
I remember a case where a man didn't usually take his child to daycare in the morning. One morning he was responsible for doing it and the child slept during the trip. He went straight to work and forgot about the child. I would not punish someone who made that mistake. Losing the child and dealing with his family's anger will be punishment enough.
From what I have seen in the media, the punishment varies greatly from no prosection at all to years in prison. Anecdotally, the perp's socio-economic status seems to be the major factor in determining punishment.
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