Pendragons Princess

So I was in Albertson’s yesterday buying groceries (not my favorite hobby, despite the fact I love cooking) and there I was in the baking goods aisle which also had the candy (of course) and right before I make my final decision on what brand of cooking oil to buy, around the corner comes a male toddler why decides to lay on his stomach on the floor in front of the candy. I see his father follow him and tell him to get up off the floor. Amazingly enough, the child was pretty quiet - I can only guess he was so tired of shopping with his father he decided to fall asleep on the dirty floor, but the two of them took up all the space at one end of the aisle so I exited the other end which required me to move a few feet away. I wasn’t sure if the kid wanted to stay there until Daddy bought him a bag of Dove chocolates for $3.99 or what. Anyways, that incident reminded me of the following video on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4h7PgrCPWQ&feature=related

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Here is another “I forgot where I left the kid” story and the outcome:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/277049.php

Catalina dad convicted in death of baby son left in car

By Kim Smith

Arizona Daily Star

Tucson, Arizona

January 22, 2009

A Catalina resident who forgot his 4-month-old baby inside a car last spring with tragic consequences was convicted Thursday of negligent homicide and child abuse.
Anthony Ryan Kurz, 20, could be placed on probation or be sentenced to up to 7.5 years in prison when sentenced by Pima County Superior Court Judge Teresa Godoy Feb. 20.

It took the jury five hours over two days to convict Kurz.

Jurors were told Kurz dropped the baby’s mother, Samantha Womble, off at work at noon on March 10, 2008, drove home and parked his car in the back of his home in the 4000 block of East Pinto Lane in Catalina.

Kurz left his son, Adryan, strapped in his car seat in the car and went inside.

After trying to chase a bird out of the trailer, Kurz started watching the cartoon “South Park” with his brother and a friend. He also worked on some speakers.

At 4 p.m., Womble called him to ask him why he hadn’t picked her up from work yet.

When Kurz went to the car, he found the baby, but attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.

Temperatures reached the mid-70s that day and an experiment showed the inside of the car likely got to 120 degrees.

Deputy Pima County Attorney Jonathan Mosher asked jurors to convict Kurz, arguing that forgetting the baby amounted to a “gross deviation” from the care “reasonable” people would provide.

Mosher told jurors that during the 3.5 hours the baby was in the car, Kurz didn’t respond to several text messages from Womble’s mom and sister.

Womble’s mom wanted to know if he was going to work, because if he was she was to watch the baby, Mosher said.

Defense attorney Michael Piccarreta told jurors Kurz was distracted because of the bird, the speakers and the argument he and Womble had been having about ending their relationship.

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Wow. Only 20 years old and charged with the death of his 4 month old son. That sucks, but at that age, he is much too young to be having such a respponsibility of caring for a child if he is more interested in stereo speakers and South Park (Normally South Park is the domain of childfree persons, not 20 year old guys who have babies to take care of). The mother was at work so she could not really do anything to help the child, and Kurz, well….let’s just say he should consider getting snipped. He doesn’t need to make more babies and chances are he won’t when he is in prison. If Womble is smart she will leave him immediately.