# Texas toddler dies after mom leaves her in a hot car for 45 minutes **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 293
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-toddler-dies-after-mom-leaves-her-in-a-hot-car-for-45-minutes/543728/293 "2010-06-22T18:21:49Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I never argued “murder” as anything but a subjective opinion., and I never made any claim at all about the level of penalty. Sure you did. Besides the calling the parents murderers, you indicated that anybody who didn’t want to throw parents in jail for leaving their babies in cars wanted it to be legal. [QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I am not just like them, and you do have to put parents who do this in jail or you’re just giving people a legal way to kill their kids on purpose and get away with it by saying it was an accident. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] They’re not innocent, they killed a baby, and if you don’t want to jail them, then you’re saying it should be legal to leave a baby in a car until it dies. Why do you want to legalize that? That’s horrific. [/QUOTE] Well, [here’s the Texas Penal Code](http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/PE/htm/PE.12.htm#12.23) on Class C Misdemeanor, which is what intentionally or knowingly leaving a child in a car in Texas represents: > [@](#): > > Sec. 12.23. CLASS C MISDEMEANOR. An individual adjudged guilty of a Class C misdemeanor shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $500. Now, how was it you were arguing for jail time for this infraction when you knew all along that there was no jail time involved? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-toddler-dies-after-mom-leaves-her-in-a-hot-car-for-45-minutes/543728)._