A Texas mother has been arrested after police alleged her 22-month-old child died when left the infant in a hot car in Corpus Christi.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18901880

A Texas mother was taken into custody Tuesday after police alleged her 22-month-old child died when she left the infant in a car outside a Corpus Christi school on one of the hottest days of the year.

The mother, 33-year-old Hilda Ann Adame, was jailed on charges of causing serious bodily injury to a child and child endangerment/abandonment with imminent bodily injury, according to a Corpus Christi Police Department incident report.

It was not clear how long the infant had been in the car before the baby was found unresponsive, according to the incident report.

  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
    1513·
    1 month ago

    Parents do not need to teach kids to bang on doors. Geez.

    Parents need to be responsible and not leave their own kids in a car to die, or don’t be parents in the first place.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      164·
      1 month ago

      Shit happens, even with loving parents. Do you know what it feels like to have four hours of sleep non-contiguous each day for three years? That’s some parents’ experience.

      Teaching your kids to survive regardless of your parenting doesn’t mean you’re a bad parent. It means you care about your kids enough to do everything possible to make sure they survive.

      • BambiDiego@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 month ago

        Sensibly, you’re right.

        In the real world, there’s no excuse, just explanations.

        A 2 year old just cannot be expected to handle a crisis of any sort. You can teach them to be careful, to be aware, to be expressive, to be communicative, but never to handle a real crisis.

        • Telorand@reddthat.com
          31·
          1 month ago

          Just gotta do your best, and hopefully you’ve done enough to ensure they survive to adulthood.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        42·
        1 month ago

        He has five children. Today, he says, is the birthday of his sixth.

        Get this man some condoms. No parent has enough time to properly raise six children. I think it’s cruel to the kids to just keep having them.