It happens every summer. Babies die because they are left in cars. It doesn’t matter the reason – some moms and dads simply have a breakdown in memory, other parents are involved in drugs, sometimes it’s a babysitter. But every summer – every. single. summer. – children die in cars.
A mother in Nashville who lost her 5-month old son last summer spoke about the tragedy recently,
“The word ‘forgotten’ is used a lot and it’s probably the easiest way for people to put it when they talk about my story is “the mother who forgot her baby in the car,” but when I really analyze that day and my thought process I realize that ‘forgot’ is really an over simplification of what happened. It was much more than just forgetting it was almost like the best way I can describe it is a lapse in memory and my brain adopted an event that had previously happened,” she explained.
Stephanie Gray now recommends parents or guardians leave their briefcases or purses in the backseat with infants so they’ll remember the babies. She doesn’t want to see the tragedy ever happen again to any babies or children anywhere else.
Baby Joel Gray was accidentally left in a car on a 93-degree day for five hours.