It is that time of year again for parents to lock infants in cars, roll up all the windows and go get a trendy hair cut.
In this case a woman left her 3 year old and 10 month old in a locked car with the windows rolled up for three hours last Friday, which was a very hot day here in Michigan.
The one good thing here is that the prosecutor in this case is at least talking the talk. Usually in cases like this the prosecutor will charge the parents with manslaughter at best, but here they’re charging the woman with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of felony child abuse. Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor Deborah Carley told the Associated Press,
Those children really suffered. The mere image of her sitting in that salon, getting her hair done, reading a magazine while they were suffering makes me sick.
Also appropriate were the police chief’s comments,
We treat animals better than that. It’s our full intention to put her behind bars for the rest of her natural life.
Absolutely. Prosecutors need to use cases like this to send a message that if people don’t want to take care of children in a responsible manner, then they shouldn’t be having them.