Home Sad Story on Oprah, Mom leaves daughter in car.

VegasAngel · Oct 2, 2008

Oh ok, gotcha. I think she & I just agree the RF may be a possibility as to why someone may forget their kid- if they are rear-facing you dont have a visual unless you have one of those little mirrors. I''m just trying to grab at any possible reason as to how/why a child would be forgotten in the car. I''ve never forgotten my hunny in the carseat & most of us havent, so hard to imagine.

Tacori E-ring · Oct 2, 2008

Vegas...I think it goes back to that some people are unstable and well, CRAZY! I seriously had to stop watching Nancy Grace b/c I would be a mess and sob during every show. Fathers putting their babies in microwaves, parents drowning their children, a principal (maybe the woman on Oprah) left her 2 year old in the car who died, a 6 year old calling 911 from the backseat while his mother drives DRUNK...horrible people, horrible parents. I wish this story surprised me. I wish this kind of thing never happened.

I too can NEVER imagine *forgetting* my baby. Sad.

VRBeauty · Oct 2, 2008

Date: 10/2/2008 5:01:09 PM
Author: Tacori E-ring

Date: 10/2/2008 1:31:21 AM

Author: VRBeauty

VegasAngel, I think you''re on to something. The practice (law!) of putting young children in the back seat, and facing infant carriers to the back, probably contributes to the problem.

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Vegas, this was the comment that I was addressing.

Tacori: Just to clarify, I did not mean to imply in any way that there is anything wrong with the law. I was just making an observation... it''s probably easier for a parent to overlook an infant in the back seat than in the front, and it may be more likely to happen if they see an inanimate object should they glance back there, rather than their baby.

Tacori: Just to clarify, I did not mean to imply in any way that there is anything wrong with the law. I was just making an observation... it''s probably easier for a parent to overlook an infant in the back seat than in the front, and it may be more likely to happen if they see an inanimate object should they glance back there, rather than their baby.

Haven · Oct 2, 2008

What a heinous thing. I am sick just reading about this. I didn''t see the show, and I''m not sure I would have been able to stomach it, anyway.

I read an article a few years back about two different fathers who forgot their young babies in their cars. One was a beloved college professor in a small town, and one was a recent immigrant from Mexico who worked a minimum-wage job (he was a legal immigrant, so no need to jump to conclusions). The article discussed how the college professor was never charged with a crime, and the community rallied around his family to support them. The Mexican man was charged with manslaughter, vilified, and sent to prison.

Both cases are horribly sad, and the way the men were treated so strikingly differently makes it even sadder to me.

vespergirl · Oct 3, 2008

Date: 10/2/2008 2:46:57 PM
Author: VegasAngel

Date: 10/2/2008 12:36:29 PM
Author: vespergirl
I was so interested in this that I looked up the news articles of the actual event - Oprah made a BIG mistake putting this MURDERER on her show. According to the evidence that was gathered by police, Slaby backed her car into her parking space at the school, and then surveillance videos showed her returning to her car 6 TIMES that morning to retrieve articles out of the back of her SUV. How can it be that you would go to your car 6 TIMES and not see your dying baby back there?

Also, according to the administrator of the daycare center where that her older child attended, the Slabys had a history of leaving the 2 year old in the car. It happened SEVERAL TIMES over the two-week period before the murder. In fact, it became such a problem, that after this horrible ''mother'' left the baby in the car for over 15 mintues while she was wathcing her older daughter''s school play, the day-care administrator called a meeting with her and her husband to tell them that leaving their baby in the car was UNACCEPTABLE and ILLEGAL behavior.

Not two weeks later, this piece of crapexcuse for a human being found a convenient way to murder her baby - since she had been warned SEVERAL times over the previous weeks not to leave her baby in the car, and visited the car 6 times after parking that morning, I think that can hardly be called an accident.

The police in her area are clearly incompentent for not charging her, and so is social services for not taking away her older daughter.

I hope that this woman suffers every day, and I''m sure that eventually she''ll pay the price for making her daughter suffer the way she did. I can''t believe that Oprah painted her as a sympathetic figure. She is a negligent murderer, and she belongs in jail.

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Ooh do you mind sharing where you found that info, I''d like to read it too. This year here, there was a child (One of 8?) who was missing for 17 hours & found dead in the car. How do you not realize your child is missing for 17 hours? he was 4.