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This infuriates me like nothing else. How can a parent just forget that their child is in the car? Isn't their baby/child one of, if not THE most important thing in a parent's life? Don't they talk to them on the way to where they are going and stay aware of their presence along the drive? How a person can arrive somewhere and just completely forget that their child is in the vehicle is beyone me. When I travel with a small child or baby with me, I talk to them, I make jokes, if it's a baby I still talk and make funny sounds to entertain them. i don't understand how you can leave the vehicle and spend an ENTIRE DAY without remembering that your own child is still sitting in your vehicle. This story breaks my heart. I can just imagine this poor baby getting himself out of his seat and desperately trying to turn the ignition so that he can roll the windows down. He tried to save his own life. How can a parent forget their own child like that? I just don't understand.


HOUSTON -- A 3-year-old boy who died when he was left inside a pickup truck tried to save himself from the sweltering heat, detectives told KPRC Local 2.

"The child was aware," said Lt. John Denholm of the Harris County Sheriff's Office. "He was trying to get out, trying to survive."

Cameron Thomas Boone, 3, fought for his life inside a sweltering pickup truck in the parking lot of North Cypress Medical Center on Thursday.

Investigators said Boone got out of his car seat, found an extra key and tried to put it in the ignition.

"It's like he was trying to put a window down or open a door but was unable to," said Denholm.

Detectives said Cameron's mother was supposed to drop off her son at day care around 6 a.m., before heading to work at the hospital, but forgot.

"She just has to be distraught right now," said a hospital employee who did not want to be named.

Fellow employees said Boone's mother works as an operating room technician. They were shocked the incident happened just outside a hospital.

"How could somebody do that? How could you forget your son inside a truck?" said one employee.

Detectives said the mother arrived at work at 6:30 a.m. and did not realize her son was in the truck until her shift was over at 3:30 p.m.

"Her clicker wouldn't work," said Denholm. "She goes to check, why not; there's her son."

He was in the front seat, where he apparently tried to get out. When the mother found him and could not get in, she smashed the back window and rushed him into the emergency room, but it was too late. Detectives said he likely died several hours earlier.

Detectives said temperatures can reach 150 degrees inside a vehicle in less than 30 minutes.

The Harris County District Attorney's Office will determine if Boone's mother will face any charges.

That just makes me sick to my stomache. I agree, how can you possibly forget your child is in the car?? Shame on her, shame on any parent that does this!

I have a hard time understanding how you just forget a child. You forget to get eggs at the grocery store. You forget to pick up dry cleaning. You don't forget your child.

I think people forget having children is a priviledge NOT a right. It is my honest opinion that not everyone deserves to have them.

She put him IN the car. Then FORGOT to drop him at daycare?
I'm totally confused. No, actually I'm not buying it.

I figure that she was probably late for work and made a decision. A deadly stupid decision. I can understand running into a convenience store or to pick laundry, but this is outright negligence. While I often think society goes a little too far with the "protection" concept, this is definitely not one of those and she should be charged with endangerment of a child, at the very least, and more likely manslaughter.

I completely agree with cs and txna...having children is a privilege and a blessing and I don't buy her lame-a$$ story for a second! Reading this thread literally made me sick to my stomach.

My youngest will be 3 on Sunday and I can assure you that it would be impossible to "forget" he was with me in the car regardless of whether he is awake or not.

But, just for arguments sake, I want to create a scenario to prove why I say this was no accident. Let's say she started the morning off horrible by having a terrible fight with her husband and that made her run late for work. We'll say she put the baby in the car while he was sleeping, drove to work lost in her thoughts about her horrible morning and stressing out because she was going to get in trouble for being late. When she finally arrives to work, she jumps out and runs in apologizing for being late and begins to work feverishly to make up for the lost time. Although I can't even fathom that it could possibly go this far, I created this scenario to prove my next point. THE WOMAN WORKED IN A HOSPITAL!!! You can't enter any hospital in the United States without constantly seeing children either running around waiting to see a loved one or laying around waiting to see a doctor! Anyone who has a child knows that anytime you see other kids, it makes you think of your own. She expects people to believe she worked for 9 hours straight and never once thought about her son and where he was and what he was doing that day??? She couldn't convince me of that with God as her witness. I understand that people make mistakes and I understand that accidents happen but to forget that you didn't drop your baby off at day care and to forget that you left him in the car for 9 hours - BS!!! I fully expect to be hearing a lot more about this story and wouldn't be suprised if murder charges were filed in the end. JMHO. That poor baby knew what was going on and suffered a horrific death. I hope that if she has any other children someone is smart enough to remove them from her custody...

Said on the new last night that no charges will be filed in either of the cases.
Why not? They didn't say. But my heart cries for these forgotten babies.