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*WTF* Man kills daughter by leaving her in hot minivan, then.....

How on earth were charges not pressed against him?

That happens around here (Louisiana) sometimes but the people responsible are generally arrested and charged.
 
That's pathetic. It's not like a kid is an appliance you left on. What goes through his head..."Hmm, did I leave the stove on when I left?....no...maybe I forgot to feed the dog....no that's not it either....did I lock the door....OH CRAP I FORGOT ABOUT MY KID!"

 
Wow, I can't believe that he's not having charges pressed against him. They prosecute people for doing stupid sh!t like that in Phoenix.
 
At the hospital where a medical team attempted to revive Jasmine, a distraught Dunton tried to grab a police officer's gun in an apparent suicide attempt. Doctors gave him a sedative to calm him.
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Damn, first he kills his daughter, then he grabs for a cops gun and he doesn't even get a slap on the wrist. This guy has more lives than ten cats.
 
Four hours after parking the van, he came outside and suddenly realized he had not dropped her off at the baby-sitter's.
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Something like this happened in Colorado springs a year or so ago. Mom shows up for work at a fast food joint and "remembers" the kid in the car hours later. Charges were pressed against her, but I think they were eventually dropped.

Yet another abdication of responsibility.
 
Originally posted by: ivol07
At the hospital where a medical team attempted to revive Jasmine, a distraught Dunton tried to grab a police officer's gun in an apparent suicide attempt. Doctors gave him a sedative to calm him.
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Damn, first he kills his daughter, then he grabs for a cops gun and he doesn't even get a slap on the wrist. This guy has more lives than ten cats.
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Touch a cop's gun around here and you'll have a bullet in your head, no questions asked.
 
From the article, it doesn't sound like he's blaming the car manufacturers. He's just saying that it would a good thing to have.

...ya know just in case 😉
 
In all fairness, at least according to this story, he's not filing suit or blaming carmakers, just advocating for the addition of some kind of safety-warning system. It sounds to me like his daughter's death was squarely his fault, and he gets to live with that for the rest of his life. I can't blame him for wanting to avoid more, similar deaths in the future.
 
i love it when people ask "how did these guys live this long, or how did they reproduce, etc. etc."

Do you even REMEMBER the people that graduated with you in high school? I wouldn't trust 9/10 of the people in my graduating class with my freakin cell phone, let alone a kid. And I supposedly went to a "smart" school.
 
Originally posted by: PoPPeR
i love it when people ask "how did these guys live this long, or how did they reproduce, etc. etc."

Do you even REMEMBER the people that graduated with you in high school? I wouldn't trust 9/10 of the people in my graduating class with my freakin cell phone, let alone a kid. And I supposedly went to a "smart" school.
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Yup ... think about how stupid the average person is ... now realize that half of all people are even stupider. The human race survives through sheer numbers.
 
Originally posted by: DonVito
In all fairness, at least according to this story, he's not filing suit or blaming carmakers, just advocating for the addition of some kind of safety-warning system. It sounds to me like his daughter's death was squarely his fault, and he gets to live with that for the rest of his life. I can't blame him for wanting to avoid more, similar deaths in the future.
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Just wait.
I have complete faith in human nature and the american legal system.
 
This story kind of reminds me of the CSI episode where they purposely left the baby in the car to die, but tried to pass it off as an accident.
 
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
This story kind of reminds me of the CSI episode where they purposely left the baby in the car to die, but tried to pass it off as an accident.
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I think this may be the case here.
 
Originally posted by: fredtam
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
This story kind of reminds me of the CSI episode where they purposely left the baby in the car to die, but tried to pass it off as an accident.
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I think this may be the case here.
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Why do you say that? I gather the DA's office took a long hard look at that possibility before declining to prosecute.

FWIW, I have worked extensively as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney, and I support prosecuting people in this situation for manslaughter, at a minimum, and potentially murder if the evidence is there. I don't know anything about this particular case, however.
 
I dought this was out of not knowing it would get too hot. I think this is just a matter of the parent doing something they shouldn't have but then later not wanting to be blamed for it so they blame it on someone else
 
Originally posted by: AgaBooga
I dought this was out of not knowing it would get too hot. I think this is just a matter of the parent doing something they shouldn't have but then later not wanting to be blamed for it so they blame it on someone else
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I'm not sure what you mean. He's not saying he didn't realize the car would get hot - he just forgot his daughter was there, and so he's advocating some kind of buzzer or other reminder that a child is in the vehicle when the driver exits.
 
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