# Texas toddler dies after mom leaves her in a hot car for 45 minutes

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**Created:** [June 18, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-toddler-dies-after-mom-leaves-her-in-a-hot-car-for-45-minutes/543728 "2010-06-18T23:51:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-toddler-dies-after-mom-leaves-her-in-a-hot-car-for-45-minutes/543728/25 "2010-06-19T04:34:14Z")

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> [@MsWhatsit](#):
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> Seriously, it’s **Dio** , best to just drop it now.
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> Generally speaking, and NOT addressing this specifically to **Dio** , I will venture to say that most likely all of the parents that have had this happen, were 100% confident that it couldn’t happen to them. I actually think it’s probably safer to not be 100% confident that it couldn’t happen to you, because that makes you paranoid and keeps you checking the back seat every day before you go in to work or whatever.

I already do that. That’s why it absolutely can’t happen to me. Parents who do that crap should be jailed for life. They are murderers. I am better they are. I will not be told that I would ever do the same thing. There’s no way in hell.

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