Comments on: Ohio toddler left in car 8 hours dies and mother might not be charged…

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:24:14 +0000

It’s plain and simple. We’ve created a society that puts careers/jobs first and children last. If we’re stay at home mom’s then we’re all running around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to get everything done in one day. That includes buying groceries, making meals, housekeeping, paying bills, driving kids to their activities and countless other responsibilities we mother’s have. We are over extending ourselves and it’s showing. It’s evident in how we are treating our children, how communication with our spouses is nil and how something as simple as remembering to take your child out of the car when you’ve reached your destination is a big deal. I’m the mother of a 3.5 year old and I have NEVER forgotten him anywhere! I once forgot my purse at Hallmark, forgot my leftovers at Norm’s, forgot my pin number, forgot where I left my car keys, forgot my jacket at Disneyland, forgot my wallet at Cosco…well you get the picture. If I don’t see my son for 5 minutes or if the house is silent for a moment I go look for him. I cannot for the life of me understand how hours can go by without missing your child. (???) I don’t want anyone telling me “you just don’t know until you’re in someone’s shoes”. I wish we would stop making excuses for people who are neglectful with their children. Children are innocent beings that look to us for safety, comfort and love. It’s out parental duty to provide it. Whew! I feel better now.

By: ayanna gomes

ayanna gomes — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:58:40 +0000

SEND HER TO JAIL!!!!!!

By: Child dies playing hide and seek | Writes Like She Talks

Child dies playing hide and seek | Writes Like She Talks — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:23:53 +0000

[...] No more details have been published than what’s in this story. So it’s hard to say for sure whether it will turn into anything like the mother, the SUV and the donuts case. [...]

By: Jessie

Jessie — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:29:34 +0000

As someone said in a letter to the editor in the Cincinnati Enquirer today, if you had a briefcase with a million dollars in cash in your car, you wouldn’t forget about it…THIS SAYS IT ALL…

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:56:36 +0000

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070917/NEWS01/309170007/-1/CINCI

More comments from Brenda Slaby.

By: Donna L

Donna L — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:18:12 +0000

“I don’t know how you punish somebody for something that was an accident,” Nesselroad-Slaby said Thursday of White’s proposal. “A law is to prevent something, but you can’t prevent something that’s an accident”

The ignorance in that statement indicates the way Nesselroad-Slaby thinks. If you are involved in a car accident in which the other vehicle hits you without any warning, that is an accident. If you take the wrong turn and drive off a cliff, that is an accident. If you drop and break a piece of family heirloom crystal, that is an accident. BUT, if you don’t have the common sense and intelligence to check your vehicle, for anything, before you leave it, that is stupidity and negligence! Look at it this way…if she had put the donuts or the juice on the backseat floor or even in the front, this tragedy probably wouldn’t have happened. So she remembered where those things were, but couldn’t remember her daughter! And all she had to do was check the vehicle before she left it…a simple “intelligent” thing to do! Sorry, but that’s not an accident in my book!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:44:21 +0000

Finally, Jim Borgman, famous cartoonist’s, take on the case:

http://borgman.enquirer.com/weekly/daily_html/2007/09/091407borgman.html

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:41:53 +0000

Here’s another one–those critical of the prosecutor in this case might be surprised about this one! Don White, the prosecutor, is personally ensuring that a bill is sent to the Ohio Legislature to change the law so that someone COULD be charged in the future for situations like Brenda Slaby’s!

So I believe it shows that Don White truly in his heart felt that Brenda Slaby SHOULD have been charged with SOMETHING, but couldn’t find a way to do it under current Ohio law, so he has put the attorneys in his office at work to fix that.

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070914/NEWS01/709140438/1056/COL02

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:37:19 +0000

Hi folks, for those of you not local to Cincy, I am going to post the links of a couple of interesting articles.

Here is the first intereview the mother has given, discussing the incident. Anybody following this blog knows I have mixed feelings on the situation and mercy for the mother, but I don’t feel she comes off very sympathetically in this article–especially when she refers to herself as a “tough cookie” (that kinda made me mad) and talks so much about wanting to go back to work, without ever alluding to how hard it might be to be back at the school, etc.

I want to point out though, for those of you saying you can’t believe she went the whole day and never thought of her kids: she mentions even having conversations about her children with co-workers that day, but it just never “clicked,” that she hadn’t dropped Cecilia off.

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070914/NEWS01/309140005/-1/CINCI

By: Taneil

Taneil — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:19:54 +0000

I believe with all my heart that ANYONE who could forget their own child should not have children!!!

I am a mother of a 19 month old & one on the way.

I always know where my child is. What he’s doing. Let alone go 8 hours!!! C’mon people. Get Real.

I hope she never sees the light of day again. She will have to live with this for the rest of her life & I hope that she feels the pain of every burning moment. My heart is simply in pieces for that child.

It is murder!! Flat out. No If’s, and’s for but’s! Child Abuse, Neglect. All of the above!

If you believe otherwise, May who ever you believe in have mercy on your soul!