The death of a 10-month-old girl left in a hot car in Wichita, Kanas - the latest in a string of hot-car child deaths in the United States triggered the quick arrest of the girl's foster father and prompted state officials to launch home inspections of adoptive and foster families.
The foster father told police he picked up with child from a babysitter about 4 p.m. Thursday, drove home and forgot the child was in the back seat, according to Lt. Todd Ojile of the Wichita Police Department.
Investigators say the girl was locked in the car with the windows up for some two-and-a-half hours. Temperatures in the Wichita area reached the low 90s on Thursday.
The foster father was in the process of adopting the girl with his partner, according to police. "Both were extremely upset," Ojile said.
Ojile says the couple's other children have been removed from the home as the investigation continues. The couple are the adoptive parents of two children and are foster parents to four others with ages ranging from 3 to 18 years old, he said.
On Friday, Kansas Department for Children and Families Secretary Phyllis Gilmore ordered immediate home inspections for all adoptive and foster families associated with the agency that approved the couple for foster care.
The 29-year-old foster father, whose name was not released by police, was booked on an aggravated endangerment charge but has not been formally charged. Ojile said the district attorney could file charges as early as next week.
So far in 2014, according to statistics compiled by the Department of Geosciences at San Francisco State University, there have been at least 18 heatstroke deaths of children left in vehicles. In one highly publicized case, a Georgia father remains in jail awaiting trial on murder and child cruelty charges in the death of his toddler son, who was left in the father's SUV for seven hours.
How in heavens name can anyone forget a child in the car?how??????
You come out and check that the doors lock,you see the child,you bring them.
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I think its a new way of getting rid of unwanted children and they think they can escape the law!!!......wickedness personified.
Same Wichita again. Heinous crimes are really committed in that part of Kansas no be small.
ReplyDeleteChildren are blessings but seems dz d new form of A.B...punishment awaits dem
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That is why I hide all the car seats and other baby carrying equipment/device in my car whenever I dash out alone.
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ReplyDeleteNa wa o. I don't believe it was a mistake. Rip to be child.
ReplyDeleteStella something similar happened in lagos sometime ago. A family had a driver who usually goes with their nanny to drop the child in school on the island. It happened that on thois particular day, d driver could not come to work and the wife begged the husband who works on Lagos island to help drop the kid on his way to work, so the nanny was not needed to accompany him. As usual, kids start sleeping in the cars as u take them to school. This hapnd in this case and the man drove straight to work. He did not remember he had d child in the car as he was not used to doing this. Na so the man entered the underground packing lot in his office and locked the car with the remote. (Most pple lock their cars on the move). Na when madam call am for afternoon or so na when oga remember pikin for car. By the time he rushed down, d baby had already died.
ReplyDeleteChei!poor child,so sad..The dad will live with the guilt for a long time..I love kids so much to even forget em for a second..
DeleteChai.... Carelessness, Madam go finish d hubby dat day... She go tear am into 2....
DeleteAwwwww.. Poor Man he would never forgive hiMself . He must have suffered
DeleteThat's d end of their marriage...
DeleteWTF!!!!!!!!!
DeleteHow can you forget a child is with you. So he was not even extra careful while driving. I find it hard to believe!
Just had goose pimples reading dis.sooo sad!may God help us all.
DeleteI was just gisting hubby about this comment truetalk and he completed the story for me!! For real??
DeleteOmg! Omg!!!! Sooo sad!
Pure wickedness.... They can't justify their been forgetful except they are mentally unstable and if that's the case then they are not suppose to have access to adoption....... Shak!
ReplyDeleteOh No!
ReplyDeleteHmnn! God is watching.
ReplyDeleteNa wah oh. Some parents can be careless, but I don't trust foster parents, most of them do it for the money. The DA should investigate the case very well.
ReplyDeleteIn this hot weather, leave small pickin inside car, even me adult dey sweat like chicken going to slaughter house not to talk of kids. May the child RIP.
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Wichita always in the news for the wrong reasons these days,Not a good thing for their image,By the way stella,Angel Maryjane David has fired back maturedly at your bad comment against her,And by the way I was the one that dropped the other comment,Not her,Just a harmless info.
ReplyDeleteIn some cases it's forgetfulness. ... I think they shld allow parents strap their kids in the front seat.
ReplyDeleteNigeria and her countless dramas. na wa .
ReplyDeleteNigeria kwa? Abeg go back and read the story again.
DeleteMy manager has done it like twice
ReplyDeleteInstead of taking his kids to school, he brought then to the office and the left them in the car.
It was when his wife called, that he realised that he has forgotten his kids in the car and had brought them to work
Thank God it wasn't for a long time and the kids were like age 7 and 9
If na Dudu do this kind thing dem for don call social services for my office.
Na wah o! Which kain witch story be dis? Anyways thank God madam called.thank God!
DeleteSo 7 and 9 year old kids couldn't say a word when their dad was getting off d car. How can anyone forget their kids in a car.
Delete@Trutalk...chai fear God oooo....u can lie I watched that movie on Afmag...in fact na Olaiya Igwe be the boy papa and what u narrated is how it happened verbatim. Kai I fear gist brewers for this blog omo. Lie lie things. Not that it can't happen or hasn't happened. But this one na fabu..lol. Stella na only ur blog person no fit reply comment underneath the right one...unlike others. On ipad tho...cos I can reply using my mobile. Why na? Pls see to it
ReplyDeleteMy hubby just confirmed it Mr/Mrs!!
DeleteAnd NO he did not watch any movie about it.....
No matter how u want to look at it sometimes parents forget their kids and that's a fact let's stop being judgemental cos it can happen to anyon
ReplyDeleteHaba!
ReplyDeleteWhat was he thinking?
Might not be intentional tho
Hrd abt a recent case in Nigeria where a child wit her cousin enterd their packd car in d house and d child lock clicked in.gateman and maid slpt off and by d time anyone knew was happening, was alrdy late. So painful. Gists dat touch d hrt
ReplyDeletehmm..i tink dis is a ploy to get rid of unwantd kids..dis is one too many.may d child's soul rip..ehm aunt stells,woz hapnin btw u n angelmaryjane david again cuz she dey vex gan ni o.av u cin ha latest post abt u?i nu dat lady was bad news.feeln lyk she is d best tin dat happnd afta sliced bread,evry one to ha is eida a hater or jealous..wt ha rich horseband.delusional fool..aunt stells u bera put dat drama queen in ha place..
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ReplyDeleteI TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH ANYONE WHO SAYS IT IS EASY TO FORGET A CHID IN THE CAR....IT CAN NEVER HAPPEN TO ME.
ReplyDeleteTHE MINUTE U STEP OUT OF YOUR CAR,YOU ARE FACING THE CAR AND U WILL SEE THE BACK SEAT WITH THE CHILD IN IT...OR DO PEOPLE STEP OUT OF THEIR CARS MOONWALKING?
FORGETTING YOUR CHILD IN THE CAR FOR HOURS IS PREMIDITATED AND THATS IS MY OPINION.
CHILDREN ARE A NOISY LOT AND EVEN IF THEY SLEEP OFF ON THE WAY,YOU CANNOT MISS THEIR PRESENCE IN THE CAR WHEN YOU STEP OUT,I TRIED THIS AND I CONCLUDED THAT FORGETTING A CHILD IN THE CAR IS WHAT WHOEVER DOES IT WANTS........THIS CANNOT BE PROVEN BUT TRY IT AND SEE FOR YOURSELF THAT U CANT MISS THE CHILD..NOT POSSIBLE ABEG!
Preach on sister !
Deleteyou said it all,what the hell ,what the fuck will you be thinking ? How to catch flying elephant or what ?
You will remember your car key,phone and even your house.
If you are the type that forgets,employ someone that don't.I keep thinking of what that baby went through before dying !
SELFISH HUMAN,IF EVERYTHING IS NOT ALL ABOUT YOU BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE YOU COULD HAVE ALWAYS CHECK & DOUBLE CHECK EVEN WHEN ALONE !
Rest in peace angel.
But at times Stells, people lock their cars whilst moving, especially when in a hurry. You step out, shut and lock d door with back-hand and carryon walking.
DeleteUnless you for to turn off the car and you leave the key in the ignition, please don't tell me you forgot a child in the car no matter how much of a hurry your in.
DeleteDo you forget your bag, phone or documents in the car? How small is the child we are talking about sef? If it's a baby, I expect the child will be in a car seat which can't be missed. And if the child is a preschooler, the child is tall enough to fill more than half of the back seat while laying down flat. So you no see pikin leg or head as you dey commot from the car?
Even when we are home and my child is awake and alone in the room, I get up to go and check if I don't hear any noise or crash sound in 15mins!!
Children are to hyperactive to be that quiet abeg
Stella i Beg to differ! Wen i read d post,i was about to scream "how on earth does someone forget a child in a car?!!??!!HOW?!!? Buh den i read through d comments.i was stil boiling and den i got to d story of d naija manager dat has forgotten his kids twice in his car.and at that point all i could do was thank God It has never happened to me.buh dat doesnt mean some people dont "forget" It still baggers belief that dey do..buh They do and we Will never know why.i for one WIL NEVER forget...buh den we make mistakes...dats why dere is a word called "forget" in d first place.This is Soo sad and evil peeps are now using It to get rid of innocent kids.why r some people's heart Soo dark dat even d Devil himself cant deal.
DeleteStella, with electronic key, you lock your car on the move. It is well. Zoney
DeleteWickedness!
ReplyDeleteIt myt be a honest mistake,it has happen here. First a former nebo was moving to anoda apartment in d same compond,they accidentally left d car open n their last son went inside d car probably to play n got locked in d car. With d whole movin n all they didn't even remember d boy,it was in d evenin d man asked for d whereabout of d boy n after searchin they found him stretched out n dead in d car. It was horrible n sad. I don't think anybody will delibrately do dat. U can call it carelessness,but definitely not wickedness
ReplyDeleteStella it can never happen to u cos u are a woman and u are already used to taking care of your kids. Im ds post and other bv stories it s always d man dt commits d abomination. Reason is cos some men arent use to taking care of there kids or dropping them off to sch. All they knw is from house to office and probably on dt particular day of d incident dere mind is also channeled to d office forgetting that they v to branch somewhere. What makes matter worse is,if d child is sleeping,cos if d baby is awake and playing or making some sounds d dad wl still rem dt he has a child at d back of his car.
ReplyDeletei rily dnt think i cn forget ma kid in d car o.buh hu knws?....as for dat fake ass fella called maryjane angel abi na wetin..jeez she jst irritates me...let ha enable comments @ least so dat ppl ll do serios openin of nyash.lolzzz....jenny
ReplyDeleteStella it is very very possible esp.
ReplyDeletewith men who re not used to being with kids. It almost happnd to a friend, tho' not in d car but at home. Wify went grocery shopping leaving d kids (a 3y/o & 11mnt ) under papa care- papa wan komot carry d 3y/o put 4 car, himsef enter
engine turned on, and as a gud dad be4 driving off he wanted to make sure everything's awright. He turned to d 3y/o n was like "'re u ok?" n she go "yes dad, re we leaving baby at home?"
Shuo na so d guy tek speed jump komot d car run upstair go pick d sleeping baby
That Mary jane woman is so full of shit. With her dry blog and unintelligent posts. Seems she uses controversial posts to draw people to her blog. She for try open comments make she see wetin people for show am! Kmt!
ReplyDeleteI don't get it!!!!! What manner of wickedness is this? Who hurts a child?
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