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Sunday 8 March 2015

The Hot Day & The Forgetful Mother

Should the mother who left her baby to die in the back of a car instead of delivering him safely to the creche be charged with manslaughter?    It's very easy to feel sympathy for her, with her mind in all probability on the day's work and hastening to get to the first patient before a row of complaints lined out.   Any one of us could have done the same......or could we?   
It wouldn't have happened of course if she had not been a working mother and I imagine she has also come to that realisation.   It's much harder to `forget' to take the toddler into the supermarket with you though I was tempted more than once if only to avoid destruction of the lower shelves caused by son number one not to mention the hostile glances of other shoppers.    These days, however, the stay at home mother has become very much a thing of the past, almost an oddity and those of us who not so very long ago were able to choose not to work, to instead look after our children ourselves and allow our brains to turn to mulch probably didn't realise how lucky we were.  
But to get back to the forgetful mother on that very hot day, to be fair I have to say I think she should be charged with manslaughter.   That is undoubtedly what would happen if she had inadvertently reversed over the child in the driveway as he played on his tricycle.  
There is no doubt that she will be found not culpable and that too is only right. 

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