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The church prayed for conception for the couple, & she ask God for a baby, in which Luong considered her baby a gift from God. And after all that, this “Christian” Mother kills her “gift from God“. But since she was such a conscientious mother & had never done anything wrong in her life, she will walk for this murder.

 

http://www.timesdaily.com/news...b5-10604b9ffe60.html

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Charge her with murder. I can't for the life of me figure how anyone can claim they "forgot" their child is in the car. Your small child is, or should be, on your mind 24-7, and not out of your sight or mind unless you know where they are and that they are safe. She was chasing that money instead of worrying about her child. This was "overload"?  

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But her mind was on overload - filled with thoughts and worries of a friend and employee who just recently hanged himself in a closet, only to be found there a week later. There was also concern for a close family friend, who is like a father to her, still hospitalized after having a stroke.

And in the midst of her worry and grief, she was planning Ella’s first birthday party, set for Sunday at Oak Mountain State Park. It was too much, Luong admits.

The article says this:

 

<<<“She was on the phone the whole time, and she said that cost her her baby’s life,” Huynh said. “She blames herself.”>>>

 

It is not really clear what this means, but taken literally it seems to mean that she was talking on the phone while driving to work.  If so, then that was "distracted driving" indeed, if it distracted her from even remembering to drop the baby off at day care.  Another good reason NOT to talk on the phone while driving.

 

For all too many of us, life  is cluttered with details and demands that subtract from our fundamental humanity and compromise the quality of our lives. This is a terribly sad matter for this couple, who seem to have been such dedicated parents.

No good would come from prosecuting this woman.

Originally Posted by Kate Colombo:

Since I can remember you (Best) stating we should defer to opinions of those who have heard all the evidence, why not do so in this case. There may be an arrest forthcoming, but is doesn't sound like it. I'm sure the DA will have all the facts as they're available and make a decision.

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Yes, and? I think your question was why would anyone think she intentionally killed the child. So, in other words, you, with no facts, think no one should think about that possibility. I answered, there is reason to think that, given that people do kill their children, and her excuse about "forgetting" her child is pitiful. NO one goes for four hours without their child crossing their mind.

For all too many of us, life  is cluttered with details and demands that subtract from our fundamental humanity and compromise the quality of our lives. This is a terribly sad matter for this couple, who seem to have been such dedicated parents.

No good would come from prosecuting this woman

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You said it yourself, on the phone. Other things were more important than her child, doesn't sound like dedicated parents to me. Oh, they say, she was such an attentive mother she wouldn't put the baby in daycare at church on sundays. Pfttttttttttttt, yet it didn't bother her to have a babysitter, and she couldn't have been very attentive, considering she forgot she even had a child. 

Bond Granted for Mom Who Left Baby in Hot Car

 

 

The Virginia mother who left her 8-month-old baby boy in a hot car for about 6 hours will be released on bond Thursday.

Zoraida Magali Conde Hernandez, 32, was charged with felony child neglect following her son's death July 6.

Hernandez was granted a $25,000 bond following the completion of several court-ordered procedures. One of those orders included a visit to her home from Child Protective Services as Hernandez has four other children.

Police said Hernandez drove to her workplace, the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, around 9 a.m. Friday and forgot she had left her son, Nathan, in the car. She left work around 3:30 p.m. and drove to pick up her 2-year-old daughter from daycare in Alexandria, according to charging documents. At that point she found Nathan still in his car seat. The baby was not breathing.

"[Hernandez] didn't give Nathan a second thought during the day," prosecutor Molly Newton said Wednesday. "[She left him] burning up to death."

Hernandez immediately drove to INOVA Alexandria Hospital. The baby was pronounced dead a short time later.

Nathan had a body temperature of 108 degrees, the charging documents state.

"I'm having a hard time understanding how she would miss the child," Judge Wiggins said Wednesday.

David Culver, News4's Northern Virginia Beareau reporter, said about 30 people appeared in court in support of Hernandez. One nephew called Hernandez "the best person, the best mother."

Police recommend that parents of young children be extra careful during hot summer months. "Slow down and be careful.... Try not to let things get too busy," said Lt. Mark Bergin of the Alexandria Police Department.

Also on Friday, a 16-month-old girl died after being left in a car for about four hours in Baltimore.

According to KidsAndCars.org, approximately 38 children die from being trapped inside hot cars every year.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/n...t-Car-215989011.html

 

Kate, maybe you & contendah can see leaving your baby in a hot car to die. I believe the majority of Mom's & Dad's would not. If I put my baby in a car seat, you can bet I will remember to get my baby out, & not after said baby is dead.

 

Life may get cluttered with details & demands, but never to the point that I would forget the care of my baby........never!! Since that woman forgot & left her baby in a hot car, I wonder how many times she forgot to feed her baby & change it's diaper?

Anyone that forgets their baby like that doesn't deserve to have a child.

Originally Posted by Contendah:

The article says this:

 

<<<“She was on the phone the whole time, and she said that cost her her baby’s life,” Huynh said. “She blames herself.”>>>

 

It is not really clear what this means, but taken literally it seems to mean that she was talking on the phone while driving to work.  If so, then that was "distracted driving" indeed, if it distracted her from even remembering to drop the baby off at day care.  Another good reason NOT to talk on the phone while driving.

 

For all too many of us, life  is cluttered with details and demands that subtract from our fundamental humanity and compromise the quality of our lives. This is a terribly sad matter for this couple, who seem to have been such dedicated parents.

No good would come from prosecuting this woman.

I don't care if you are on the way to a funeral for your spouse, after attending the funeral for your mother, you do REMEMBER where your child is. If people actually cared for their children instead of using them as some kind of prize for proving they can reproduce, then maybe more of the next generation will survive. But I doubt it. I overheard a teen mother at the ER state that having her baby allowed her to get away with so much more things. Wonderful attitude. She also called the poor child 'baby' all night instead of using his name. Even a dog is treated better than that.

Originally Posted by vplee123:
I'm with you semi. Life can be very hectic. But to leave/forget a child in a car for HOURS is beyond my comprehension. I may forget to brush their hair, or read their school newsletters, but good grief- I cannot fathom "forgetting" to keep them safe.
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Originally Posted by Crumbpicker:

I don't care if you are on the way to a funeral for your spouse, after attending the funeral for your mother, you do REMEMBER where your child is. If people actually cared for their children instead of using them as some kind of prize for proving they can reproduce, then maybe more of the next generation will survive. But I doubt it.

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I can somewhat sympathize with this mother. I never left my baby in a car and forgot, but when my youngest was a couple of months old I took him and his brother to Wal-Mart and the oldest started having a 3 year old melt down. I had to leave my buggy and get out of the store. The 3 year old then pulled away from me and tried to run across the parking lot. I was carrying the baby in a c****at/carrier while toting a diaper bag AND running after the 3 year old. I got his arm, made it back to the car, set the baby on the back of the car while I secured the 3 year old in his car seat. He was still screaming and crying the whole time. I was completely frazzled and maybe a bit overwhelmed by having a 3 year old and a newborn. I sat down in the car and cranked it and was just about to put it in reverse when I saw a man running towards my car waving his arms. I immediately realized I had left my 2 month old sitting in his carrier on the back of the car. I was horrified. I jumped out and grabbed the seat sobbing. I felt like the worst mother in the world. I couldn't drive for 20 or 30 minutes because I was shaking so hard. 

 

No one is perfect, people make mistakes. Even with their children. There are somethings that are just tragic accidents and we should not be so quick to vilify others. You never know when you might make a tragic mistake yourself.

 

 

I don't care if you are on the way to a funeral for your spouse, after attending the funeral for your mother, you do REMEMBER where your child is. If people actually cared for their children instead of using them as some kind of prize for proving they can reproduce, then maybe more of the next generation will survive. But I doubt it. I overheard a teen mother at the ER state that having her baby allowed her to get away with so much more things. Wonderful attitude. She also called the poor child 'baby' all night instead of using his name. Even a dog is treated better than that.

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Exactly. No normal parent "forgets" their child for four hours. Odd too, no one asked her about her "prized" baby in all that time, as in how is the baby doing, or how are preparations for the party going? It's a strange story.

Unaware that she had left the baby inside the SUV, Luong went on with her day at work. When she arrived at the salon, she and her husband watched video on her cell phone from Ella dancing at their home the night before. “Music and dance was her passion,” Luong said.

It was about 1:15 p.m. when the babysitter called, and asked Luong if Ella was sick and that was why she hadn’t shown up. It was then that the frantic parents realized what happened and found Ella unconscious in her car seat. “I want you to tell everybody I wish I was in that car seat,” Luong said.

 

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Now tell me that is not a messed up story. 

The article said the entire four hours was filled with talking about the child's b'day party and looking at a new vid of the child. She didn't forget the child; she simply forgot to drop the child off. As for the babysitter part, I would assume the sitter was someone she knew and trusted, not someone at a large church, perhaps a teenager, she didn't know.

 

Has anyone dropped off children at various places and then realized they had missed a destination while thinking about different things?

Makes even less sense. Oh yes, those four hours were filled with "thoughts" of the child, all except the most important thought, she left her strapped in her car seat to die. Daddy didn't ask anything about the child either, such as what time are we picking her up from the sitter, or anything at all about her to jog mom's memory? The story is whacked.

Originally Posted by semiannualchick:

Another death because parents forgot? Can you believe they told police that they thought the other had brought the child inside? OMG! What do you do when you get home? You change the diaper, fix food/feed baby, bathe the baby before bed. Does both Mom/Dad not kiss the baby goodnight?

This is just wrong!!!

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Kinda like the claim that they looked at pictures of the baby, talked about it all morning, had people calling and asking about the child's birthday party, but it never dawning on the mother that she left it in the car, and the dad never asking how the child was when mom dropped her off at the sitters, and the babysitter waiting four hours to call. I guess if you "buy" all that you can buy the stories of these two about each thinking the other one had brought the baby inside.

Now, unless I read incorrectly, at least two of you think the father and mother in the Homewood case conspired to kill their child. Correct?

 

The second couple mentioned had drugs in their home and ostensibly in their systems. They are obviously unfit and should be charged with manslaughter. I can't see a comparison between the two sets of parents.

I don't know if anyone thinks the couple in homewood conspired to kill the child. I do think their story stinks on ice. Who can believe that a parent discusses, looks at photos of, or takes calls about a party for a child, yet it never crosses their mind that they left the child in the car?  Were the homewood parents tested for drugs? We don't know, and I doubt it, but they should have been, and their home and business searched as well. On the one hand they want us to believe she was a doting caring mom, on the other hand we're supposed to take her word that she just "forgot" for four hours that her child was in the car, all while she's discussing and looking at pictures of her. Bull. The comparison? They are both sets of unfit parents, yet one set is charged and the other gets sympathy. Again, bull.

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