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In reply to the discussion: Father Leaves Baby Locked in Car for 8 Hours (No Arrest) [View all]exboyfil
(17,863 posts)49. Here is another one in Indiana
Sentenced to 3 years but served two days for leaving her child to cook in a hot car. The child survived but was injured.
Rescuers broke into an SUV outside a Fishers store to pull out a 19-month-old, with temperatures reaching 105 degrees outside, she would go into seizures. Her mother, Meg Trueblood, left her in the closed up car for an hour while she shopped. The child survived.
Eleven months later the case is closed and she plead guilty but mentally ill to criminal recklessness with serious bodily injury.
She got the maximum sentence - three years - but only served two days behind bars. Is that enough penalty to deter future child in car cases?
http://www.wthr.com/story/22536612/sentences-about-balance-in-cases-of-kids-left-in-hot-cars
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If I offered you $30,000 (entry level salary) to bake your kids at 100+ degrees for an hour or so...
Hip_Flask
Apr 2014
#22
apparently your not getting it they were living in the car the kids would have been there
azurnoir
Apr 2014
#24
it seems you have more problem with the woman interviewing for a job than that they lived in the car
azurnoir
Apr 2014
#51
wow again just wow in reality it seems you're condemning this woman for being homeless
azurnoir
Apr 2014
#63
so you too have less problem with the fact the car was this families only home
azurnoir
Apr 2014
#57
Yup, those parents who forget their children for hours til they're discovered dead in the car?
riderinthestorm
Apr 2014
#39
Thanks for the link. Just scanning that page only 2 sets of those parents were charged
riderinthestorm
Apr 2014
#43