Dumb Parents
John Walsh, the host of America’s Most Wanted brought us a story a few weeks ago of a mother killed over her purse and her car outside of a convenient store. John tells us, in his always dramatic voice, that we have to get this murderer off the streets. He killed this mother while her baby sat strapped in its car seat in the car so he could steal the car. She left the baby in the car seat while she ran into the store. What kind of mother was this? I never, ever, ever left my infant in my car without me standing next to it (filling up gas) and if I had to go inside I unstrapped them and carried them in with me. Awake or asleep I did not leave an unattended child in an unattended car. Had this woman followed such a simple rule she would still be alive. Instead she “bravely fought off her attacker” in an effort to save her child’s life. If she had her child in one arm and her purse on the other she could have let this guy run off with her car. Your car/purse or your life is an easy decision to make. Your child’s life or yours, most people choose for their child to live.
What happened to her should not have happened. The guy who stabbed her causing her death needs to be found and imprisoned. But the decision to leave her child in her car is just as bad as the grandmother who leaves her grandkids in the car in the casino parking lot or the parent who gets home and “forgets” their child in the car to suffer a slow painful death on a Phoenix July day.
