Two toddlers died of heat exhaustion when their fathers forgot they were strapped in child seats in the back of their cars as they went to work.The article mentiones they were both loving devoted middle class men who had forgotten that their children were with them in the car in a lapse of concentration.
How very sad, not sure why they mention the mens middle class status? apparently, the one that says he did not realise his 3 year old daughter Zoe was in the car, has a managerial position at Areva, the French state nuclear operator, This fathers name has not been mentioned.
Yannis, the 2 year old boy, who also died of heatstroke and dehydration, his father owned a chemist they mentioned he would have been very aware of the risks, suggesting he is a pharmisist.
Are they suggesting, by mentioning their status in society as middle class, indicating they have achieved above average standard of education, do the auhtorities think that indiviuals of this category are not liable to suffer from thoughtlessness do they think that this would prevent an indiviual from getting their priorities wrong?
By mentioning this is it supposed to devolve the severity of their failure to consider their children to put their childrens well-being above everything else?
It is unclear if they were both forgetful, as the article points to only one father where this was supposedly the case, the other father says he was not aware that his 3 year old daughter was in the car, strapped in her car seat.
How can you over look a 3 year old child, even if they were sleeping? when he arrived at work and parked locked up his car how could he miss not seeing her? This fathers name has not been mentioned where as the other father has.
Jean-Louis Chapuis, the regional director of public security, said he can't explain it "The parents were very attached to their children and they are not a family which is in difficulty. There is no objective way of explaining this drama except to say that it was a huge moment of forgetfulness, a mental lapse.”
I'm Presuming by him stating "they are not a family which is in difficulty" what he means by that, that they are a family of a higher level income bracket, that dress well, that appear to be nurturing parents, a home that they own, where both parents reside.
This sounds like he his suggesting that he is surprised middle class families, who are not in difficulty, have displayed poor parenting skills have failed to considered the child, to place the child as the most important factor in their minds.
The father of the three year old girl has not been question yet apparently he still in a very disturbed psychological state, has a mental health specialist been contacted regards this situation? Zoe's father has been placed under arrest. I just find it hard to believe he did not know his 3 year old daughter was in the car, who put her in the car and strapped her in the car seat?
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The father, who has not been named, left home in the morning with Zoé, his daughter, in the baby seat in the rear of the car. Apparently unaware of her, he drove past the childminder 200m from his house in Saint-Marcel in eastern France, where she spent three days a week, and continued on to work. Police believe he may have thought that Zoé was spending the day with her mother. He parked the car at 9am and walked into his office At 4pm, the father got back into the car to fetch his five-year-old son from the town's nursery school - still apparently unaware that Zoé was in the baby seat. “He didn't even realise that the child was dead in the back of the car,” said a police source. It was more than an hour later that he finally noticed his daughter. He drove directly to the local fire and ambulance station but rescue workers were unable to revive her.
