Baby Left in Car Outside Home Depot

That's why I always tell the ederly to get back in their house, and stop driving or walking SLOWLY across the street. "Babies and Elderly... such a pain for consumers"

These stories always make me shudder. How is it possible for someone to do this?

"How is it possible for someone to do this?"

I believe many of them are intentional.

This is obviously a stupid thing to do, but I think some people don't realize how quickly the temperature can rise in a car with the windows up in the summer. In the first 10 minutes, the temperature can rise about 20 degrees. It's 85 degrees out right now.

"Babies and Elderly... such a pain for consumers"

What a horrible story, and then i have to read a wise comment from jimmytown....Have some compassion

"...but I think some people don't realize how quickly the temperature can rise in a car with the windows up in the summer. In the first 10 minutes, the temperature can rise about 20 degrees."

I think you had to have been living in a cave not to know that you don't leave Junior, Grandma or Rover in a hot car in the middle of July.

I've left my lunch in the car a few times but I can't imagine forgetting about a living being.

Really Dactyl? This happens every day all around the world. Do we read about it every day? No. Can we? Yes. You can blame the kids for leaving the elderly unnattended, or you can pass a law stating that all elderly stay home and visit the outside through the windows of the world... aka, the internet.
Tomorrow, you probably wont care if some child or ederly person was left in a car in Boise, or New Durham, but because you can picture the parking lot of Home Depot in Clifton, it engulfs your day.

I've left my lunch in the car a few times but I can't imagine forgetting about a living being.
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Yeah, I've forgotten my lunch on my front seat as I was rushing into work but a living, breathing person would be tough to overlook.

Parent was probably just "running in for a minute" but then needed to find a salesperson for assistance. Have you ever tried to find a Home Depot sales person for help? I think they're all hiding in a back room somewhere.

I disagree that location determines what make makes a story upsetting. That said I?m one of those people who uses humor to cope.

There is no excuse for leaving a living thing in a hot car. I'm glad someone got involved and this child was helped.

Folks I agree that it is unfathomable to leave a child or any living thing in the car (backseat) but I could "understand" how it could happen...I heard of a Dad who left his baby/child in the back seat and went to work...it turned out that since his wife couldn't drop off their child at daycare he had to do it this once...well the baby fell asleep in the car and he went to work forgetting that the baby was in his care...the worst case scenario ended up happening, sad to say. Thank God they were able to revive this baby and hopefully he/she will fully recover from this ordeal.

Extremely sad story. If the kid had to be revived, there are some genuine concerns about brain damage.

It is always sadder when it is the innocent with no control over their environment suffer. Sometimes people forget what the true priority is while worrying about the day to day. I certainly hope the child was revived before any lasting harm was done and it just turns out to be a real eye-opening experience for the parents.

Story update from the Record:

"The unidentified woman told police she had dropped off a group of neighborhood children from a day camp and forgotten the boy -- whose parents are vacationing in Vermont -- was still in the car, Detective Sgt. Robert Braken told The Clifton Journal.

The youngster was strapped into a third-row seat when the woman stopped at her house around 10:30 this morning, Braken said.

Just before 2 o'clock, he said, she decided to return some items at the Home Depot.

After leaving the store minutes later, he said, she spotted the youngster still in her SUV."

From the photos in the story, the vehicle looks like a late model Chevy Suburban. Damn car is so big that it wouldn't be so hard to not notice a 2 year old in the back row. I'm not defending the woman, but this was in no way intentional.

I guess I actually do know how someone can do this. A few years ago my wife and I were in the car with our new baby asleep in her chair in the back seat. Nice day, spring I think. We make a stop at the shopping center so my wife can run in to the pharmacy. She get's out, I park the car. So I'm sitting there for a minute and I think, hey, we need something at the other store that was right there in front of me so I hop out and run in, electronically locking the door behind me. So I get back to the car, literally two minutes later, and I open the door and there's my wife, giving me a look like I've never seen. Then it hit's me - I just left my little girl in the car, alone. It was a feeling of absolute horror. Now it was only a few moments, the car was locked, and it was not a hot day so she wasn't going to bake, but OMG did I feel like the worst parent in the world for quite some time. Obviously, it never happened again, because it only takes you doing that once to inject the proper amount of fear into you, but I'll never forget that feeling.

So I guess there, but for the grace of God, go I.

"Reported to of been...."?

Our tipster may be related to the Montclair bank robber.

I dreaad these stories - it happens every summer. Before being a parent I couldn't imagine it ,but after having twins I certainly could see how it could happen, particularly if routines are different, child is sleeping, and you have a lot on your mind. After reading one of these stories a few summers ago, my husband and I made it a point to always leave my purse and his wallet on the floor beneath the child seat - this way, the chances are less that a child would be forgotten.

My prayers go out to the people involved in this story, particularly the 2 year old.

That's a really good idea, about some kind of reminder, as mentioned above with the purse and wallet.

My father left me on top of the car. A bit more dangerous should the car have been in motion, but I wasn't baking up there. No harm, no foul.

Stuff happens, people forget. It doesn't make them horrible. Horrible things happen all the time. Looks like the kid's parents left for Vermont and forgot him!

I remember seeing a story somewhere about a woman who bakes cookies in her car during the summer. She drives to work, opens up a tube of pre-made cookie dough, and lays it out on a cookie sheet set on her dashboard. By the time she's done her shift, the cookies are baked, her car smells delicious, etc, etc. Just something to put into context the type of temperatures that this poor child was exposed to.

Imagine having to explain this all to the parents after they returned home from Vermont?