Bride-To-Be's Boy Left In Hot Car Dies

[The Straight Story]

Bride-To-Be's Boy Left In Hot Car Dies
Child May Have Been In Car For Hours


WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- West Palm Beach authorities still don't know how a boy was left in a hot car as his mother did her nails hours before her wedding. The boy later died at a hospital.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said that 29-year-old Mirland Baptiste may not have known the boy was in the car. She dropped off other children at a relative's house Saturday before going to the nail salon.

She was supposed to get married later that day. Instead, the family mourned Gregory Cesar at the hospital.

Officials said the boy may have been in the car for more than two hours. Temperatures had reached 90 degrees.

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[elocs]

1. The sad thing is that this will happen again and again and again. n/t

[AlCzervik]

3. i was in houston last week and it happened there, little boy left in a car for just a bit

over and hour and he died.

[roguevalley]

6. I wish people who would do this with babies would bring them to my

house. bring them to me. I'll take them.

[Ilsa]

7. I really think most of it is unintentional. I don't see why she'd pick

her wedding to kill her child. I think it was a careless accident. Between that and dark car windows, passersby don't see a child in a vehicle.

[The Straight Story]

8. you make a good point about window tinting

hadn't really given that much thought before. A big DUH on my part :)

[LostinVA]

2. The comments on the Sun Sentinel's page are digusting

I have NEVER read such filthy racist and xenophobic stuff in my life, except POSSIBLY in Neo Nazi and Klan screeds.

It appears the child's death was a tragic mistake, not a case of a child intentionally left in a car while a parent screws around doing something.

[The Straight Story]

4. It is sad indeed the shit people say to one another (or to all) at times

I just don't get what drives the hearts or minds of some people.

[Catherine Vincent]

5. The anonymity of cyber space. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Oh no!! *crying*

[JerseygirlCT]

10. You know, probably a very stressful time - and it doesn't say

how old the little one was - if we're talking young enough to have been soundly napping back there... add a lack of sleep due to stress and horrible things like this can happen. Seems so hard to believe, but I feel horrible for this woman and this family. What a terrible, terrible thing!

[Kahuna]

11. I cried when I heard this on the news. It's so tragic I can't stand it..

:cry:

[undeterred]

12. People don't do this on purpose any more than they

accidentally back the car over their kids on purpose.

When I worked in manufacturing they gave us behavior based safety training... People have accidents due to 4 factors: RUSHING, FATIGUE, LINE OF FIRE, COMPLACENCY.

In this situation the bride was probably rushing and not concentrating on her child (complacency) because of the wedding. Its tragic, but its human. I don't think the hot weather makes concentration easier.

I hope she can forgive herself.