On June 10th at about 2PM a 6 year old child was left at the #1 Strawberry Farm Recycling Center.
A little while later the person returned for the child, the person came back thankfully and retrieved the child thank goodness.
After this was posted on Social Media there was others that posted that they to had at one point left a child behind as well purely by accident, and one person even had posted that it had been done once to teach the child a lesson, according to the person the child was stubborn and the lesson didn’t take on them. Children can be very stubborn at times for sure.
Safe Kids Worldwide. “NEW STUDY: 14% of PARENTS SAY THEY HAVE LEFT a CHILD ALONE inside PARKED VEHICLE despite the RISKS of HEATSTROKE,” 2014. https://www.safekids.org/press-release/new-study-14-parents-say-they-have-left-child-alone-inside-parked-vehicle-despite.
While the focus for research by many is about hot cars since sad to say kids are being left in hot cars and end up passing away from the heat. The incident doesn’t just involve hot cars, it happens at homes, as well as other locations also.
Some would say that you shouldn’t ever need anything to make sure you don’t forget your child, but if you make up habits so you don’t forget that helps to make sure it never happens. Those small habits can help make sure that the situation never happens. Doesn’t matter what the habit is you form so long as it is always repeated.
There are people who see kids that are alone and yet don’t get involved according to a site:
Safe Kids Worldwide. “NEW STUDY: 14% of PARENTS SAY THEY HAVE LEFT a CHILD ALONE inside PARKED VEHICLE despite the RISKS of HEATSTROKE,” 2014. https://www.safekids.org/press-release/new-study-14-parents-say-they-have-left-child-alone-inside-parked-vehicle-despite.
Now while it seems like the thing to do is get involved and that is a good thing, you also have to acknowledge the issue of being falsely accused of kidnapping if you do take a child and try to get help. While a parked car sure enough wouldn’t get you charged with kidnapping, but other instances might very well end up with you trying to prove to the law that you were not in fact violating the law and engaging in kidnapping, so that is a thing to think about, the best procedure would be calling 911 and staying in place.
