2 babies left in hot cars in Ind., 1 dies

AP

(AP) GREENFIELD, Ind. - A baby girl, just a few months old, has died, and a 16-month-old is hospitalized, in separate incidents near Indianapolis in which children were found trapped in cars during record-setting 105-degree heat.

The baby who died was found by police this afternoon in Greenfield, about 25 miles west of Indianapolis. Police say it appears she had been left in the car for "an extended period of time." Police aren't providing further information, saying the investigation is continuing.

In the town of Fishers, 15 miles northwest of Indianapolis, police broke a side window of a Ford Explorer SUV to rescue a 16-month-old girl who was locked inside. Police had been called to a store parking lot and found the child. They say the girl began having seizures shortly after she was taken inside an air-conditioned building. She was taken to a hospital. There's no word on her condition.

The mother of the girl has been charged with neglect.

[ronin427]

It just shows the quality of the females and mothers in america.

[erasmus111]

Females and mothers aren't the only ones who are brain dead. There have been men who have left there children in the car, too.

[foo8259]

Every year in Texas people still drown in their cars every time it rains heavy, in spite of the barricades, the thousands of dollars in fines handed down, and the constant admonishments in the media to "Turn around, don't drown." One lady pulled out from a flooded road said to her rescuers "I thought that flood gauge was measuring inches not feet!"

[vharo01]

This is so disturbing to read. About 20 years ago I pulled a baby from a car that some stupid parent left in a car. This incident still haunts me to this day. It was a very hot summer day in the San Fernando Valley and I was shopping in a store when everyone heard a baby crying but we didn't know where it was coming from. I decided to go outside and check it out. No baby in sight so I started walking around the parking lot and saw a child between 10-12 months old in a car seat with a window open about 2-3 inches. I told people in the store to call 911 and in the meantime tried to reach into the vehicle. Luckily I was super skinny at the time and was able to open the door and pull the baby out. The mother came out of another store about 5 minutes later took her baby from my arms as I cursed her out then she ran back in the store. Police showed up and made me point her out. I have a child who is 9 years old and have never left him in a car alone. Twenty years later I still get so mad at that lady.

[credibility2]

It should be mandatory that people be given intelligence tests once they reach an age where they're capable of procreating. There isn't any excuse for these types of things occurring. The idiot parent or parents of these kids should be put in prison for life and left to rot.

[carolhill814]

To me this should be called First Degree Murder and the second situation should be called Attempted First Degree murder but these are humans and that will never happen.

I think the law should step up to the plate and call it what it is Murder.

[Resin-Smoker]

Interesting how the ethnic group of the mother isn't one of the details...

[carolhill814]

The NEWS dare not say a thing about that because it would be called being a racist. I guess you have to read between the lines that is if people can read.

[erasmus111]

"Interesting how the ethnic group of the mother isn't one of the details..."

Why should it be? Does it matter?

If you are going to say that it happens more with a particular group, you would be wrong. Over the years I have read about MANY kids dying in a car, and I can tell you that it hasn't been happening with any particular race!

I guess we can tell you are a racist, huh?

Now, if you want to talk about COUNTRIES, well then I can say that I hear more about it coming from AMERICA, than I do my own country.

[stormerF69]

Let the punishmant fit the crime,handcuff them hand and foot in the back seat of a car with the windows rolled up and leave them there for 3 days if they live OK if they don't OK.

[talkin2u924]

Stupid Stupid Stupid parent or parents. There is no excuse for this happening. There is no possible way to justify or explain this tragedy. It's just a thoughtless, ignorant brainless parent who thinks more about themselves and not about a child. What normal thinking person leaves a child in a sealed up car in 100 degree heat? NONE. I hope they toss the adults guilty of this in jail forever.

[ramrod42]

If ANYONE would leave a "baby" in a car, they should be sent to "JAIL" forever !

[audemus]

It's amazing to me that people can be this ignorant.

[hypnotoad72]

Or forgetful...

Or, far worse, with any possible criminal intent...