Clyde, in terms of temperatures--for Arizonans--this past Saturday's high temp in Phoenix was *fantastic*--compared to this same time last month, the weather that day would be described as 'relatively cool all day'--I'm serious! Still too hot for infants and toddlers 'left strapped in sealed up cars for hours', now, but still...I promise you, it is nothing unusual to see children *older* than this man's child left behind in cars, *windows rolled down*, while the parent/adult shops in a grocery store. Happens all day, every day. Thing is, there are usually older kids onhand (from toddlers to pre-teens) *left together* inside of the vehicle. Except for trucks. Then the kids are allowed to wait in the back of the truck--often with a pit or rot sitting with them--and the parents are nowhere to be found (shopping in one of the stores).
Every day, all day. It's a family (cultural) persistence, despite all the kooks running around these days, snatching kids. This stuff still persists, despite all of the warnings, so...
Odds are, the responsible adult is Mexican, too (domestic situation w/mom
and dad, sometimes). Mexicans and whites, too, will even drive their trucks on the street with small kids in the back! When it comes to some idiot doing this kind of thing linked to jobs or so-called *brief stops at a bar or strip joint* (and 'yes' this has also been the excuses for recent past tragedies like this), this is when it turns out that the negligent parents are usually *white*.
This guy--phenotypically speaking-is a rare sight for this kind of heartbreak--not at all typical.
Here's another video and clip from CBS 5 News--another update. Much more detail is given and there are statements from the sitter
and his brother:
http://www.kpho.com/story/23494938/pd-seeks-murder-charge-for-man-after-son-left-in-car-dies
In this report, there's more reported info
from the father. For Phoenicians, the key info involves the part where he explains why he didn't attempt to drop his son off on Saturday:
His sitter lives in Glendale, his job is across the valley in Scottsdale, he woke up *late* at 8:30, and had to be to work by 9.
No. Not possible. Not with freeway congestion--not even if the freeways aren't congested. Too far...
UNLESS he lives in or near Glendale, too...smh. See, even if he lived in Glendale, too, I can't see him getting to work, parking, and then racing into the office in time. There's even mention that he stated that he was trying to tap into craigslist for an emergency sitter 'as he was driving to work'.
IONO about that one...iono. Even if he found a craigslist sitter and dropped his son off, he'd have *still* been late. Only breaking all kinds of speed limits *no matter what* would have gotten him to work in time, and I harp on this because
THIS is supposed to be why he handled the situation the way he did--
so that being late wouldn't get him fired.
This is so bad. If only he'd gotten his *** up; or, if only he'd have stayed home...
One Love, and PEACE