In Tennessee, the father forgot year-old daughter in the car, the girl died

One-year-old girl killed in East Nashville, father left for a whole day in a closed car.

How told the police , tn, may 23, the man drove the car the older child to daycare and forgot that in the back of a pickup truck in a child seat left the youngest daughter. Only in the evening, she found the child in a parked car. The girl was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. In the afternoon the air temperature in Nashville reached 89°F (+31°C).

The forgotten child syndrome really exists, and the reason for it is stress and lack of sleepfaced by parents of young children, scientists say.

«Sometimes a parent loses awareness of the fact that the child is in the car, says Professor of psychology and physiology at the University of South Florida David diamond. — This is due to the habits of the brain, so when we do something without thinking. When people have a child, daily the usual course of events is disturbed. This is in conflict with the system memory habits. In other words, if you are used every day to commute to work and Park your car in the same place, you can forget that now it is not so and [that] you have a baby.»

Unfortunately, such tragedies are not uncommon. So, in August of 2017, in Ohio the mother left for work, forgetting 15-month-old daughter in the car. The girl also failed to save.

However, sometimes the syndrome of a forgotten child trying to use it as a pretext to justify the crime. In 2016, Justin Ross Harris of Georgia was convicted of murdering 22-month-old son Cooper. Harris for 7 hours and left the child in a hot car.

Lawyers for the men argued that the boy’s death was a tragic accident, but prosecutors said that the defendant intentionally left the child in the car to «get rid» of paternity and to break with the family.

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