Hmm, I can tell you how you can forget a child in the car.

If they have a lot of kids in the car with them, the baby may have fallen asleep in the backseat. When they were getting out they may have told one of the older children to take their brother or sister and they didnt. Once inside the kids were cared for by the maids and no one realized until it was too late.

I will say mistakes happen, I am not condoning what happened in anyway but I do understand that this can happen as the same thing happened to me last winter in Canada, the difference being that as soon as I got in the house I realized the litte one wasnt with us. He was in the car, in his car seat alone for about 3 minutes and it scared the hell out of me. My sister was in the backseat with him along with a younger child, and in the rear of the van was 3 more kids and another teenager in the front seat.

I agree with Tallg, any intentional harm, or deliberate neglect is the height of idiocracy.

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