A Texas mother has been arrested after police alleged her 22-month-old child died when left the infant in a hot car in Corpus Christi.

A Texas mother was taken into custody Tuesday after police alleged her 22-month-old child died when she left the infant in a car outside a Corpus Christi school on one of the hottest days of the year.

The mother, 33-year-old Hilda Ann Adame, was jailed on charges of causing serious bodily injury to a child and child endangerment/abandonment with imminent bodily injury, according to a Corpus Christi Police Department incident report.

It was not clear how long the infant had been in the car before the baby was found unresponsive, according to the incident report.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    302·
    3 months ago

    Avoidable yes, should never happen yes, but what purpose does prison serve here?

      • magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org
        182·
        3 months ago

        Do you actually think prison time would be a worse punishment, or larger reminder than your kid dying?

        The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still. He hunched forward in the sturdy wooden armchair that barely contained him, sobbing softly into tissue after tissue, a leg bouncing nervously under the table. In the first pew of spectators sat his wife, looking stricken, absently twisting her wedding band. The room was a sepulcher. Witnesses spoke softly of events so painful that many lost their composure. When a hospital emergency room nurse described how the defendant had behaved after the police first brought him in, she wept. He was virtually catatonic, she remembered, his eyes shut tight, rocking back and forth, locked away in some unfathomable private torment. He would not speak at all for the longest time, not until the nurse sank down beside him and held his hand. It was only then that the patient began to open up, and what he said was that he didn’t want any sedation, that he didn’t deserve a respite from pain, that he wanted to feel it all, and then to die.

        - Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?

        • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
          29·
          3 months ago

          No. Whybare you even asking that? Prison would just prevent you from locking other kids in the car or other neglectful actions. They don’t let you drive in most prisons or care for small children.

          • magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org
            122·
            3 months ago

            You say that like most of these people are any more neglectful than you or I. Bad shit happens to good people for no good reason. Take the stress of existence, add in a change of plans during a daily event where you’d normally run on autopilot, and your fucking kid is dead. If it never happened to you that’s because you wheren’t life’s unlucky few who died, or got someone killed for a very human mistake.

            There isn’t always a solution. You can’t fix every bad situation. Sometimes you have to sit there and just eat the fact that the world is garbage and there is literally, positively, absolutely nothing you, or anyone else can ever do that will fix it.

            You’re a fucking dofus if you think any of these parents, outside of a few cherry-picked instances, are going to make the same mistake twice. But you don’t, because if you did you’d simply suggest having their remaining children removed from their home.

            You’re advocating for this because the cave-person part of your brain told you “bad person get punish”, and instead of quelling it like a civilized individual, you thought “hey that’s the part of our brains that should make careful decisions about a complete strangers entire future.” Fuckin’ gratz.

            • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
              210·
              3 months ago

              What are your qualifications? It sounds so incredibly much like you are talking out of your ass. Have you ever dealt with this in real life before? Prior behavior predicts future behavior. If you are in a circumstance that is bad enough to allow you to doing something so incredibly stupid, your life doesn’t typically get more put together after this and the factors that allowed this to happen still persist. You remain a clear and present danger to your other children. Your fuck it the world is a mess attitude doesn’t help anything. I already said I’m not necessarily advocating for prison, but something to protect others from this stupidity is warranted. It’s a simple fact that you cant hurt another child this way or in some similarly neglectful way. That’s all I said. Trying to argue with that is silliness. I work with people that have murdered their children or children they have been caring for. Universally they regret it. They are not out to strike again, they all just lose their temper and accidently subject these children to physical forces that their bodies cannot tolerate but that would just equate to a harmless bar brawl if it were an adult. However, repeat perpetration is common if safety measures (lock them up, or reliably remove children from their presence) are not instituted. They are not out to strike again; they don’t have a vendetta against children, they just have fucked up lives and poor impulse control and the same stressors and same genetics and upbringing allow for the same results when in the same scenarios. I’ll give you a pass for the nasty name calling, but if you are actually educated in this topic and I see you give a talk at the next sbs conference, I’m going embarrass the crap out of you.

              • magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org
                61·
                3 months ago

                Yeah one of these things is something that can happen to a genuinely good parent due to complete happenstance, literally anyone at all given enough situational stress and dumb luck. The other are people who actively murdered their children, and where unable to stop themselves until it was too late.

                If you don’t see the difference, and you’re that much of a tool you think every hammer is a nail, then maybe you need to find another line of work.

                Never been to an SBS conference, but if you want to embarrass yourself there too, by all means, go the fuck ahead.