9-year-old Texas girl dies in hot car while mother was at work: Police

[Pressure]

Yea, wanting kids to have access to safe and affordable childcare is weird?

Reported.

 

[Chrishaune]

This ain't your grandma's generation

 

[melraH]

Got to find some sort of Summer school, camp , or relative leaving a child in a hot car even for half an hour is dangerous specially Texas weather. Or better yet call out if you can't find someone for a day now you lost your child , your freedom And your job.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

Erudite responses from colibrehs, as usual

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Keep her home with a cell phone. Text or call every hour. Leave her plenty of cereal, juice and sandwiches. She will be fine.

 

[Luke Cage]

Also she’s 9 years old so unless she was drugged or sleeping she would know to get out of the car

Oh yeah, that would never happen to me at that age.
I would've been knocking on my moms office door complaining that i was hot and needed something to drink.
But i was a bright kid. I recognize that there are some who develop slower than others

 

[Harry Sax]

Naw unless that baby was retarded, this makes no sense…she damn near old enough to operate a vehicle

 

[bnew]

This ain't your grandma's generation

childcare was cheaper back then.

grandma is also working now cause she can't live on social security alone.

 

[BaileyPark31]

Im a nurse. And I've had quite a few nurses have no choice but to bring their child in to work. Id never judge them. And staff always made sure the kids stayed safe and out the way on the unit.

Matter of fact I've had at least 2 patients have their kids stay in the hospital due to no one able to watch them.

Life happens.

 

[BaileyPark31]

RIP to the little girl.

 

[Standing on business]

We see the same story multiples times every summer

 

[42 Monks]

i stopped believing all these parents just accidentally leave their kids to cook alive in cars a long time ago....

 

[Luke Cage]

We see the same story multiples times every summer

You comment makes me wonder. I bet this mother was doing this all spring whenever she couldn't find somebody to watch her kid, But since it was only 70 degree nothing bad happened. she fukked up and didn't adjust her gameplan for the summer when its 90 degrees outside.

 

[richaveli83]

Ain't no excuse to leave a child in the car like that. Plus the child was 9 years old, not 9 months old. She could have been left home by herself. RIP to the child.

 

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Commented on Thu Jul 3 13:47:03 2025 UTC

It’s easy to doze off in a hot car and die. Everyone saying she was disabled or mentally challenged is ignoring the fact that a 9 year old was told to sit tight and wait for a whole shift. What else was there to do but sleep?
*especially since the shift started at 6am.

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│ Plus what about having to go to the bathroom? Or eat? Jesus Christ.
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│ │ She probably had snacks and the water. Hopefully a bit of breakfast. But regular meals are not a given when you are poor. She may have been accustomed to only eating later in the day. Bathroom, who knows. Maybe a pee bottle or something. It’s clear that her mother was stuck between providing for her kids and being a parent. She most likely thought better to leave her in the car than lose the job and they end up homeless.
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│ │ │ The child would have been safer home alone. There's no excuse for this.
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│ │ │ │ I JUST saw a post yesterday about a single mother leaving her kids home alone and the house burned down and she got arrested
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│ │ │ │ It's kinda an impossible choice for a single parent unable to get/afford childcare services
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│ │ │ │ (Not defending leaving a child in, specifically, a hot car, to be clear. But just saying that "leaving kiddo home alone" has its own risks)
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