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Parenting FAIL: Couple Leaves Baby in Hot Car to Go to Strip Club
Every now and then you hear a story about some idiot parent leaving their baby in the car alone. It gets worse when you hear the infant isn’t just alone but that all the car windows are up. And there some pretty lame excuses about why they did it, ranging from running into their local Piggly Wiggly or going to have a drink at their favorite bar. But this story? It beats both of those.
The parents left their baby in the car, at about 11pm at night, while they went to a strip club.
The authorities were called when they received a call that a baby was alone in a car in Louisville, Kentucky. The caller told them that the couple left the child in the car while they went into a Showgirls strip club. When the police arrived the baby boy was by himself “crying and sweating and in distress.” But the mother Laura Diprimo (who works at the club) claims that she was with her baby the whole time and was there when the police arrived. The baby’s father was also in the club but shouldn’t have been there at all. He is under house arrest and wears an ankle bracelet that is supposed to make sure that he stays home. The couple were arrested on wanton endangerment.
At the time the temperature was 91 degrees but fortunately the baby was only in there alone for about ten to fifteen minutes, but that is even too long. And the kicker, as the parents were being transported to the police station, they complained that is was too hot in the back seat of the police car.
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Jessica commented on Jun 05 11 at 3:35 pmI hate reading about these types of things, it makes my heart ache. I am so glad the baby survived. Here’s hoping there won’t be anymore stories like this this summer.
Andrea commented on Jun 05 11 at 7:45 pmWhat a pair of idiots. Sadly, probably a dozen babies will die in cars this summer because their parents just “forgot” they were in the car. It usually happens because one parent thinks the other parent has dropped the baby off wherever the poor little creature spends his or her day, and then at the end of eight hours they find a little corpse. And I love how often these parents cry “it could happen to anyone”. Uh – no. I do not mentally check out of my child’s life for nine hours a day and assume someone else is raising her. It’s never a full time parent who does this. When you are SO busy you let your child cook to death in the back seat of a car, you are TOO busy. What on earth can you buy with the money you’re grubbing for to make up for that? I personally think these parents should be in jail for manslaughter. There is just no excuse. None.
Katy E commented on Jun 05 11 at 8:05 pmAndrea, what these parents did is unforgivable. But, it’s foolish people who think “It will NEVER happen to me. I’m a superior parent! ” that these kind of tragedies happen to. You can do EVERYTHING right and accidents still happen. You should back off on the judgmental attitude and find a little humility.
Mistress_Scorpio commented on Jun 05 11 at 8:35 pmKaty, you must understand. Andrea is such a superior parent that she did not have time to even completely read and comprehend the post. She thinks the parents should be thrown in jail for manslaughter even though the child lived. Andrea’s so hard core, she thinks you should serve time for what could have happened, but didn’t. Rawr! Andrea Justice!
Andrea commented on Jun 05 11 at 9:46 pm@Scorpio – I was referring the the parents who actually let their children die (duh), and there are plenty who have done so, and there will be more. But it won’t be me. I can guarantee that. Why? Because I don’t drive, I don’t send my children elsewhere all day and I don’t have such a busy life that I fail to notice where my children are for eight hours (or even five minutes, really).
Lynn commented on Jun 05 11 at 10:54 pmI agree with Andrea. The parents complained about it being hot in the Police car on the way to the Police Station, but had no regards to the baby being alone in the car with no air at all. You do not forget your baby in a car seat in the car at 11 pm at night. They put the baby in the car seat in the car and drove to the strip Club. I just hope they never ever get this baby boy back to cause it more harm. Leaving a Baby alone in a car for any reason is just plain stupid and you do not deserve to have that baby. Good Parents do not go to a strip club at 11 pm with there baby in the back seat in a car seat. Come on People, there is no EXCUSE for this behavior what so ever! I HOPE THEY BOTH GET JAIL TIME and when they get out I hope they are never allowed to see that baby again unless it is supervised by an actual caring person for that baby.
Angela commented on Jun 06 11 at 2:09 amIronically this has turned into a slam on daycare when this child clearly would have been better off with a responsible childcare provider while his mother worked than simply left in the car. And I have heard many stories of children being left in cars for reasons other than parents going to work. Honestly it’s hard for me to understand how parents forget their kid is in the car whether you’re working or not but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. These parents intentionally took him out late at night to a strip club and then left him in the car so he wouldn’t be in their way.
Gagagolly commented on Jun 06 11 at 7:14 amI agree with Andrea too and those lovely people who leave their baby in the car while they dash off to work and think someone else took the kid to daycare or whatever are just as bad. “I don’t have such a busy life that I fail to notice where my children are for eight hours (or even five minutes, really)….” THIS. YES. Call me judgmental I don’t care.
Anon commented on Jun 06 11 at 7:57 amhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html
Gagagolly commented on Jun 06 11 at 9:34 amyeah, I read that article and while I felt sorry for those folks because I’m human, I was also disgusted with them and offended by the assertion that it could happen to anyone…it’s not like a kid getting cancer or getting hit by a car…it’s a kid being FORGOTTEN by their PARENT
ugh commented on Jun 06 11 at 10:38 amwow, andrea. you don’t drive…you don’t have a busy life…and your kids are never out claws–err, arms–reach of you? yikes.
i, for one, am perfectly content with my laziness, so lock me up! i drive on the regular. sometimes even to my mailbox. sometimes i even save myself from a full-body wrestling match and don’t get my son out of the carseat when i pump gas! please don’t keel over from shock, but i also work full-time! i can’t believe i’m allowed to procreate…
in all seriousness, these idiots are just that–idiots. the kid is lucky and i’m sure will be taken care of properly from this point on. but can we please stop using these stories of crazy to try to crucify parents who are caring, loving, and provide for their children but sometimes just screw up?
Elly commented on Jun 06 11 at 3:22 pmDumbasses. It’s people like that who make it impossible to preach common sense when making choices regarding knowingly leaving your kids in the car to run into a store for 2 minutes (for those of us who refuse to or just can’t live by the NEVER TAKE A RISK EVER EVER EVER code of conduct). Don’t leave your kid in a car when it is 91 degrees out (and we have autostart so we can have our car on and the air running without the kids being able to drive the car off…should they suddenly be able to work together as a team…or someone breaking in and driving it off and I still wouldn’t do it at 91 degrees, that can get dangerous super quickly, and is past my comfort zone.)
People who forget their kids in the car and the children die or are seriously injured, it’s tragic, no question about it. I won’t say that would never be me, but I’d really like to think it wouldn’t.
Katy E commented on Jun 06 11 at 5:27 pmThe only way to prevent accidentally forgetting a little one in the back seat is to realize that it absolutely CAN happen to you and to get in the habit of being almost OCD about opening the back doors and look in each of the carseats EVERY time you get out of your car and lock up (as in even when you KNOW your kids aren’t with you)…
Rhonda commented on Sep 15 11 at 11:52 pma girl that i know left her baby in the car while she went tanning. honestly i think it’s more often that parents are doing it intentionally because “it won’t be long” rather than unintentionally because let’s face it who of us has ever forgotten our kid in the car? i think those are the rarer cases to be honest. i actually broke out a window of a car in a Home Depot parking lot to get a baby out. then was threatened to be sued by the irate father who said he left the baby because the car seat is such a hassle and he was only going to be in there for a few minutes. this was in florida in the summer. idiots.
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