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Except this wasn't the "blistering heat of July" like in the article you linked. This was a cool, 50F day. And the author pointed that out. The child was in no
by ejk314 12y ago
Except this wasn't the "blistering heat of July" like in the article you linked. This was a cool, 50F day. And the author pointed that out. The child was in no danger and the parent was coming right back.
- tptacek 12y agoThe point of linking to Weingarten's piece wasn't that the author missed a terrible risk. She covered that risk in her piece too. The point of Weingarten's piece is that it carefully looks at the issues of culpability involved in leaving kids alone in parked cars in situations that resulted in the deaths of children. And it does not come to the conclusion that all such cases should be crimes.