Who throws a baby out of a car - good fugging grief!!

[malaise]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5494635.html

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The body of a blond baby boy clad in a diaper was discovered this morning in the grass near the side of a Galveston road, police said.

The body, described as a child between 4-months and 6-months-old, was discovered about 9 a.m. near Seawall Boulevard and Ferry Road, Lt. Jorge Trevino said.

"A couple was driving on Cherry Hill and saw what they thought was a doll," Trevino said. But something looked odd and they stopped and discovered the body next to a child's car seat, he said.

Trevino said it appeared that the child may have been thrown from the car while sitting in the car seat. He said it was unlikely that the child could have somehow fallen out of the car without the driver being aware.
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Throw away the key!!!

[panader0]

1. Some freak in Hawaii threw a baby off a freeway overpass a couple of weeks ago

Mental illness....

[otohara]

2. Yesterday on MSNBC Crawler - Baby in Microwave

there are some people out there who should never have had a kid, or two, three, four. Four over the bridge recently if I'm not mistaken.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. That just hurts so damn much.

The innocent child...

I hope he didn't suffer...

Safe passage to the poor little guy...

[malaise]

6. I suspect the poor infant was dead before they threw him

out of the car. Find this criminal and throw away the key.

[bluestateguy]

4. Death penalty

Ugh :grr:

[ingac70]

5. There are some sick fucks in this world. n/t.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Not necessarily.

Ever put something on the roof of the car while getting the door open? Then you drive off and a half mile down the road your camera or McDonalds...or your baby...goes flying off to the side?

Just as possible.

In fact, more possible. A baby seat is awful bulky to try to throw out the window of a moving car.

[lurky]

8. Aw, jeez!

:wow:
Can you imagine? But where are the parents? You would think they would be frantic... :shrug:

[elehhhhna]

24. the mother's been located, and ,

here read it yourself; sounds like the guy they're looking for is the father. There's a photo of him in the Chron and it seems a baby's been cropped out of the picture.





http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5497308.html

[malaise]

36. He looks like he's missing a few screws

Too sad :cry:

[malaise]

10. Seems highly unlikely

Don't see how anyone would forget a baby on the roof. What's more the car seat is usually inside the car.

[karlrschneider]

13. Well, as awful as it sounds, people forget about babies INside cars too often.

Leaving them, I mean...to bake. Horrible but it happens. :cry:

[RaleighNCDUer]

18. Well, I don't see how someone could leave a $900 Nikon on the

trunk, either, but my dad did it. Granted, a baby is more expensive than a camera - even a Nikon.

Seriously, though, many baby seats double as carriers, and snap into a frame in the seat in the car, but can also unsnap for carrying around.

This is not likely to be like the guy on the bridge. To be deliberate it would take 2 people, after all, one to be driving and the other to throw the baby out. Not saying that's impossible, either, but a whole lot less likely. I'm going to reserve judgement.

BTW, I don't mean to exonerate someone for driving off with the baby carrier on the roof. Just saying it could be criminal negligence, rather than deliberate.

[gollygee]

21. For babies that age, the base is in the car but people carry the baby around in the "bucket' part

of the seat all the time.

I have no idea how someone would get one of those out of the car window. I think they'd have to open the door to throw it out.

But if it was really an accident, I don't see how there wouldn't have been some kind of Amber Alert for a missing baby or something. The baby's body wouldn't have been discovered like that. There would have been a huge search party or something.

[elehhhhna]

26. One would have a to drive quite a distance w/ the baby on top just to get to the seawall.

unlikely it fell off there.

[left is right]

12. I can almost relate to this

my biggest fear while my now-grown daughter was an infant was that I might get off the city bus without her. It took the birth of her sister for me to be able to get over this phobia. I guess I figured out that even someone as absent-minded as me couldn't possibly leave two small kids on the bus. But during the worse days, I would be nearly sick by the time I got off the bus (with my daughter) each workday.

[madmom]

25. I'm sorry you don't just "forget" a baby like mcdonalds, I don't ,no can't ,buy that one!

[RaleighNCDUer]

30. People forget babies in carseats in their cars, on busses, I read of

one found by a flight attendant after all the passangers had debarked from a plane. It happens. Every year you read a dozen accounts of babies dying in overheated cars, where the parent just forget they had them for the day.

[madmom]

34. I do realize that this happens, I meant it is totally unacceptable foe whatever reason,

if they are too busy or have their mind else where, maybe they should just slow down and think of the kids.

[ailsagirl]

9. WTF???

Insane
:crazy:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. .

:cry:

[lonestarnot]

14. What the hell!

I've heard of people doing this to a dog, they were charged and convicted. Hope "it" is busted soon.

[ileus]

15. people who use drugs....

[and-justice-for-all]

16. Very very sad indeed...

and yet, there are also people who want to end Roe/Wade. Some people should not be allowed to procreate, they should be sterilized. Like criminals and the mentally challenged.

If abortion was banned, the infant/child homicide rate will sky rocket. Some may give the child up to the state while others will make an attempt to raise only to come to a point of murdering the child.

If men had to give birth, abortion would be a sacrement.

[donheld]

17. Barbara Bush? n/t

[WinkyDink]

32. Too late, demmit.

[lonestarnot]

19. Not busted yet?

[NewJeffCT]

20. Children dying unnecessarily really gets to me

I generally try to be a bit detached when watching/reading the news, since it's generally so often about death and destruction. Maybe it's because I have an almost 5 year old daughter, but every time I hear about young children dying, it really gets to me.

[gollygee]

22. Babies that age don't like their car seats and sometimes cry and scream while in the car

if I remember correctly, which I think I do.

My guess is someone got frustrated by the screaming kid and threw him out the car. :( Very sad.

But those seats wouldn't fit out a window - I think the door would have had to have been opened or something.

[LibertyLover]

23. If this is the same story I heard about on the radio this morning

the mother reported to police that her car had been stolen with her baby in it. According to CNN, they are looking for the child's father. If he is the one to have done this, I say convict him and put him in with the general prison population - no protective incarceration because of what he did.

[malaise]

35. Thanks for this

If it's the same story, he deserves life in prison

Add

[AngryOldDem]

27. What kind of person puts a baby in a microwave and cooks her?

This person goes on trial this week in my city for doing just that.

She may get the death penalty for it.

[BoneDaddy]

28. I feel like crying

this saddens me sooo much. It is either this or rage at wanting 20 minutes in the room with whomever did this.

[Ilsa]

29. We have a safe haven law in Texas, where you can abandon a baby at

a hospital or firehouse or police station and not face prosecution. It was intended to prevent this cruelty.

I can't help but wonder if there was something else happening, like maybe the mother and baby were carjacked or something.

[Eurobabe]

31. W.T.F. is wrong with people??

Parent training should be a prerequisite to having a child.

[Javaman]

33. When I was living out Los Angeles a few years ago...

I good buddy of mine related a very bizarre incident to me.

He was sitting at a traffic light waiting for it to turn green.

A car on the opposite side making a left on a green arrow, began to turn. The rear door of the vehicle swung open and what looked like a bundle of blankets or towels spilled out.

The person in the car, slammed on the brakes. Ran outside and grabbed the bundle.

It was at this point, my buddy realized the bundle was a baby!

The person put the baby back into the back seat, got in their car and took off.

[malaise]

37. They were lucky n/t