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Separate from the "Headlines" thread, because there's nothing effing funny about it...

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http://www.kiiitv.com/story/2589500...hs-of-children-online-officer-said-in-warrant

"Toddler's Dad Researched Hot-car Deaths of Children Online, Officer Said in Warrant
(CNN) -- The suspect in a Georgia toddler's death told police he used the Internet to research child deaths inside vehicles, a search warrant said.

The father, Justin Ross Harris, 33, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and second-degree child cruelty in the death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper Harris. The boy died after he was left seven hours in a sweltering SUV on June 18.

'During an interview with Justin, he stated that he recently researched, through the internet, child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur,' according to a sworn statement in the warrant from a police officer. 'Justin stated that he was fearful that this could happen.'...

On the day Cooper died, Harris stopped for breakfast at a fast-food restaurant and afterward strapped his son into a rear-facing child restraint seat on his SUV's back seat, police said.

He drove to his workplace, a Home Depot corporate office, about a half-mile away. He works as a Web designer there.

Usually, he would take his son to an on-site day care. But that day, police said, Harris left him in the car seat.

During his lunch break, he returned to his car, opening the driver's side door to put something inside, police said.

After work, around 4:16 p.m., the 33-year-old father got in his car and drove away. A few miles away, he stopped the car at a shopping center and called for help."

We all get a little absent-minded from time to time, right?

Yeah, sure.

This case doesn't sound like "forgetting." But it frequently is the excuse for this kind of event. Personally, I drove my daughter all kinds of places when she was little...often, unfortunately, under a considerable amount of stress. I NEVER forgot she was in the car with me. How in the Hell do you "forget" your child is in a vehicle with you? I'll never understand it. I've forgotten a lot of things in my life, but my daughter wasn't one of them.

This guy, however, if he really is innocent, has to be the saddest excuse for a moron who ever walked the earth. You're so concerned about abandoning your kid in a hot car that you research it on the 'net, and then you accidentally actually do it anyway? And btw, if you're really so damned worried that you'll leave your kid in a hot car, how about researching WAYS TO NOT DO THAT, INSTEAD OF HOW TO? Speechless... :shake:
 
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First off - he's not innocent. He might not be convicted yet, but if the internet search is the most damning piece of evidence, then I don't know what could be...?

Second, you returned to your car at lunch and didn't see the child seat in the back as a reminder? It's not like its a big car.
Finally, I have a feeling pulling into a shopping center was to draw the most attention to this tragedy. If it was your child, you'd stop right in the road/median/curb/wherever.
You wouldn't be thinking about finding a convenient location.

What story was it, about the Georgia mother who's son stopped breathing while in the car? I believe it was something to that effect. She stopped dead in her tracks, in the road and screamed for help. That simple.
 
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That was a purely hypothetical "innocent" in my post. I don't see any way this bastard didn't do this intentionally. And if somehow he did, he should still be locked safely away where he does not have the opportunity to reproduce again. We already have enough idiots in the world.

One afterthought: I'm wondering what kind of blood work results they got back on the child's autopsy. I'm a little suspicious about the stop for breakfast, as in, wondering if the dad dosed the little boy with some form of tranquilizer/sleep meds so he wouldn't make a fuss after being left and possibly draw the attention of some concerned passerby. Actually, I hope he did that, because then at least the poor little boy would have been unconscious and not suffering while he died.
 
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That was a purely hypothetical "innocent" in my post. I don't see any way this bastard didn't do this intentionally. And if somehow he did, he should still be locked safely away where he does not have the opportunity to reproduce again. We already have enough idiots in the world.

Locked away? Put one through his head and be done with it. Saves the tax payers money.
 
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Actually, just browsing CNN. The mother also conducted the same researched. Both should be charged.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/29/justice/georgia-toddler-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

edit: Either that or she's just saying this to draw a parallel to the situation. My point is, it doesn't fucking matter how hot it has to be in a car to kill a living thing - just don't forget. If you're fearful of something (which is bullshit) then don't let it happen, pretty easy.
 
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Someone commenting online made a very astute point: Nowhere in the chain of events does it say that the dad stopped at the on-site day care after work to pick up his son. If he normally always dropped him at day care, and somehow just forget he hadn't taken him in, then what happened the last day? So, he forgot to take the boy inside, and then also forgot at the end of the day that he always went to daycare to pick him up? Did he just completely forget that he even had a child?

Waiting for the tox reports, and to see if the boy was insured. BTW, the group that raised over $20,000 for the family: they might wanna hang onto that check for a while.
 
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This was one of those cases where, when I heard it, initially, I wanted to really, really believe it was an accident. But it's not. Now, I'd like to have him as a guest in my garage for a week. Nothing out there but power tools and imagination.
 
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http://www.wesh.com/national-news/ga-father-whose-son-died-in-hot-car-faces-judge/26779566#!8ctIi

Curiouser and curiouser...assuming "curiouser" is defined as meaning vile, obscene and damning.

Two life insurance policies, internet searches for leading the child-free life, and, oh yeah...the perfect husband? He was sexting half-a-dozen women, one or two of them during the day while his tiny son roasted to death outside in the parking lot. Psychologists need to create a new term, because psychopath isn't cutting it as an adequate label for this oozing pile of protoplasm.
 
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