I don't understand how parents forget their children in cars at on hot days. That goes so far beyond being absent minded that I can't convince myself it's not at least partially malice, or at least an utterly inexcusable level of detachment from someone one hundred percent dependent on your for protection. No child in history ever asked their parents to create them, they were all dragged into this reality by at least two people both responsible for seeing to their safety until they're capable of protecting themselves (and that's at the
absolute bare minimum). Not having someone check that the child isn't being cooked alive in confused agony is just unacceptable.
No matter how insane my life has gotten, I've never once forgotten to make my top priority verifying that all of my children are alive at each way point. I don't believe that a stressful day is an excuse for not double checking the number of children you have, not if you actually love them.
The wife of this monster has a weird rambling response to his guilty verdict that gives me an uneasy feeling that she was either involved or sorta complacent about it. The gist of her response to him being imprisoned is that it's completely pointless to lock him up because it won't stop other children from dying in hot cars.
A Really Shifty Broad said:
"For those of you who want to know if I am ok. The answer is no. I have not been 'ok' since the moment I was told my son was dead. I have not been 'ok' since the moment my life was put on this path that has led to Ross being found guilty of maliciously murdering our child. "So now you may be saying 'justice has been served.' And you are allowed your right to that opinion. But guess what, you can convict every parent that this has ever happened to, and I can promise you 2 things...#1 it will never bring our children back and #2 it will not prevent this from happening in the future. Next summer, as this begins to happen over and over again, ask yourself, 'what can be done?!' The problem is not the parent! The problem is a society that refuses to believe this can happen to them! Wake up! Accept it! And by accepting it you will be protecting your child!"
Highlighted the dumbest part. Apparently children don't die in hot cars because their parents forget them there due to not giving a shit if they're dead or alive, they die in hot cars because of society. Only by accepting that your children might slowly suffer to death because of your own negligence will they really be safe.
There's not much I find more irksome than people who intentionally try to undermine the way someone else is raising their children, and it's doubly annoying if they don't have children of their own. Apparently it's triply annoying if they don't even want kids, because they're flatly stating they'll never consider the consequences of a parent's sacrifices and intentions but still want to forcibly inject their own half-formed opinions on it.
I might not agree with raising a child religiously, I don't really like that. But someone specifically going behind your back just to be a contradictory little snot before ducking back out and letting you deal with the fallout is the kind of thing worth telling someone to stay out of your kids life over. Introducing conflicting ideas is a generally healthy approach, but that's how I feel about it, it's not my place to enforce that over the effort someone else puts into their child. Deliberate undercutting a parent because you don't like their beliefs is just shitty.