A 6-month-old boy died after being left for hours in a hot car in Louisiana, authorities said.

The baby was found dead in the backseat by his parent at about 5:46 p.m. Tuesday, according to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office.

When the parent went to pick up the baby from day care after work, they realized they forgot to drop him off at day care that morning, the sheriff’s office said.

  • InfynisEnglish
    162 months ago
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    One of the many reasons I will not be having children. I forget my tea steeping like 80% of the time. I don’t need a life in my hands

    • idiomaddict
      62 months ago
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      I hear you, but as a fellow scatterbrain, the solution is that your shoe goes next to the car seat before you load it. Or something else, but a shoe is pretty hard to forget.

      • InfynisEnglish
        102 months ago
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        “I’m sorry, officer, you see, this person on the Internet told me to put something important with the baby so I wouldn’t forget it, so I gave it my car keys, and now they’re both locked in the car!

      • SeaJ
        22 months ago
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        We just have a mirror on the rear headrest. That way anytime I look in the rear view mirror I see her.

        • iheartneopets
          12 months ago
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          Aren’t mirrors not recommended because of the potential hazard of them shattering and piercing baby in a car accident? It’s why I don’t have one; I wonder if that’s why these other parents didn’t, either

          • SeaJ
            12 months ago
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            It doesn’t have to be a glass mirror. Any reflective material is fine and that can be done on fairly soft material. But yes, the hazard is a harder mirror becoming an additional projectile in a car crash a whacking the baby in the face.