Reply #70: Well, I hardly live on easy street.

[Yollam]

I supported a wife and 2 kids on a $24K income in a crappy apartment in San Francisco up til this spring, (when we left the country for good) and I can't fathom that kind of inattention.

I would have noticed even a quiet sleeping baby in the back of my clunky old Ford Escort. Maybe her minivan was just too big - I'm not sure. I admit it's possible that all the distractions were just too much on that given day, but it's perfectly reasonable to suspect that drugs may have played a part.

But many, if not most of the posters have expressed sympathy for the mother, despite the fact that it was the baby who woke up all alone in a sweltering car, only to die slowly as noone answered to her cries. I feel terrible for the mother, yes, but hell yes, if I was the grandmother, I'd probably slap her face and ask her "What the hell were you thinking? Were you hung over? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS??!" It is a perfectly normal reaction.