I lived for a long time in the desert and would see dogs in distress in a car occasionally. Out there folks would just break a window immediately. None of the arm waving and gnashing of teeth just boom a window was gone.
The cops are talking about his internet searches and also have determined that he was slinging dick-picts while this happened. Not sure that makes him guilty of anything but it has the cops pretty worked up.
This case is troubling. Would he really be that stupid? To be sexting women while knowingly allowing his child to be burned to death? Then to go to his car with his friend like nothing was wrong? I don't know. What I see is a tragedy and the police seizing on some unflattering things that really have nothing to do with the actual crime if there was one. Take the sexting. It's very prejudicial. Here is this monster sending pics of his junk to some teenager while he is killing his baby. But if he were really intentionally frying his baby, would he be doing that? Is he really that dumb? He had to know the police would find it. If anything, it makes me doubt the police's version. To me, the most damaging item is the claim that he frequently took the baby to Chik-fil-a and then day care. So it wasn't an unusual sequence that could have plausibly led to overlooking the presence of the baby. I don't know. I don't want to rush to judgment, and I would hate to be on the jury.
That and the life insurance. Not that 25 grand is enough to make you want to whack your kid, but WTF takes out life insurance on your tyke?
I don't think sexting will have any impact in this case. Him googling about leaving a kid in a car is another thing though....wow.
I'm not a big fan of resurrecting threads like this, but I heard an awesome and simple way to avoid this type of tragedy from occurring. First, I'm not someone who will ever be distracted enough to forget my child in the car seat - but whenever I see people I tell them this trick: Take your left shoe off and put it in the back seat. It's a simple trick to help remind yourself that there is a need to check the back before leaving the car.