I hate to hear the death of any young child but I especially hate these types of deaths since they so easily can be prevented. Truthfully I can't see how this was an accident but I don't know the details.

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Oh how sad. I just don't know how you could forget that your child is in the car. How devastating!

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Left for FIVE hours? My God, if forgotten while mom's at work, I call before 5 hrs. just to check to see how he is. Even if dh is w/the kids, I call! How could you do it for 5 hours, let alone at all? Unless there's something important missed here, I'm glad she was arrested. Something has to be done to stop this. Wow. Aren't you always looking at your kids in your mirrors? I have double mirrors just for that. I probably look silly pointing out fountains and doggie to an empty car!

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Very sad!! This makes the second one posted about so far this summer.

I always feel bad for the caregiver.....I can't help it. I have said it before....if someone changes their routine things like this can happen. The grandmother was probably suppose to drop the child off at daycare before she went to work and forgot the baby was in the backseat.

As a daycare provider if a family doesn't show up i call them to see where the child is.

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This is exactly why I don't understand how things like this happen. If the morning routine did indeed change, wouldn't the grandmother or the mom call on one another to see if everything went ok? How in the world do you get out of your car and not look in the backseat? I just don't get it. It is such an awful thing to happen but it is so preventable.

I hate hearing about this type of stuff. It's so extremely sad. That poor child.

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Why are some parents who do this arrested and others aren't?

Poor baby, I hate to hear stories like this. I just don't
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Good question. I hate hate hate reading stories like this. It's so sad.

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I live in Idaho and the talk-radio news channel has been talking about the story all morning. Just last week they carried stories of how a local doctor held a press conference to remind people not to leave their children in the car. There had been 11 deaths from that so far this year in our state. Now there are 12. We knew a heat wave was coming. Yesterday the temperatures got to over 100 degrees for the first time this summer. It is going to be even hotter today.

Last year, they started proscecuting for these situations. Now all of the adults get charged. They are really trying to crack down on this.

Every year we hear reports of kids getting left in the car or kids drowning in the irrigation canals. Either one is a pretty horrible way to go.

The local radio personality is saying that the incidents of children being left in a car has gone up since the law was passed that they couldn't ride in the front seat (airbags danger.) I tend to agree. Even with a rear mirror dedicated to watching the child (which I have but someone just watching my child for the day may not), it would be too easy to forget a sleeping infant in a rear facing carseat. Of course, this child was 15-months old so he probably was in a forward facing carseat but just napping.

Here is more of the story:

OROFINO, ID -- A 15-month-old boy locked in an SUV Wednesday evening in Orofino was dead when police broke the window to retrieve the child. Rita E. Johnston, the boy's 33-year-old step-grandmother, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and felony injury to a child in the case.

The Orofino Police Department responded to a citizen’s report of a child locked in a closed vehicle near the intersection of D Street and Michigan Avenue at about 6:05 p.m. Wednesday evening.

Officer Jeremy Adams broke the window in attempt to free the victim from a car seat, but found the child, identified as Patrick Graber, dead on the scene. The temperature was hovering around 96 degrees in Orofino Wednesday while the child was trapped inside the SUV.

Clearwater County Prosecutor Clayne Tyler said an investigation showed that the child was in the car for about five hours when passers-by noticed him and called authorities.

Rita E. Johnston told police that she forgot the child was in the car and fell asleep. She was arraigned on Thursday and is currently being held in Clearwater County Jail with bond set at $15,000.

The Orofino Police Department and Clearwater County Sheriff’s Department are conducting an ongoing investigation in the case.

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