https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-boy-dead-hot-car-cops

I will never understand why this keeps happening. How the hell can you go three hours without checking on a young child. No pitty for these people, lock them up!

I just can’t even imagine……

that poor baby. So heartbreaking & avoidable

Pisses me off to no end.

No potty or pity.

We have a generation of parents that mostly raised themselves on TV principles grazing on Cheetos and soft drinks. They have little attention span, little reasoning, and little responsibility abilities.

Ridiculous! Should never happen.

Until they lock people up it will keep happening

This is insane. How TF do you "forget" a 5-year-old in the backseat????

Rest easy little one.

Better yet, call the salvage yard and crush their car right on the spot. Seize the woman's cell phone and smash it too. They also need to do this to road ragers.

Very sad and completely inexcusable

I check my truck every time I open the doors at home to make sure a pet hasn't hopped inside. Leaving a child to die because you were too distracted talking on the phone or texting is unthinkable. As someone said, a lot of people have the attention span of a flea.

You know its bad when every time you turn off a vehicle, it beeps and there is alert on the screen that says "Check rear passengers seats before exiting vehicle". Girlfriend just bought a brand new Chevy Trailblazer and it does just this. Absolutely terrible but its obviously a major problem.

Before I can get out of my truck it tell me to check the back seat for passengers. How can you not know you kid is with you?

Yep. My car has the same feature. If it was someone with dementia or something, I'd have some sympathy, but then I'd be wondering why someone with dementia was driving a kid somewhere.

Can we possibly stop texting long enough to do something, anything? I know getting that important "sup" message from one of your peeps is vital, but can we maybe not have head-on fatality wrecks or kill children in the backs of hot cars so we can answer them immediately?