Alabama toddler dies in hot car while in state custody | CNN
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The family of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr. is remembering the little boy as a “joyful,” “brilliant” “happy boy who loved life, who would light up any room that he would enter into.”

The toddler died after he was trapped inside a hot car while in the custody of a worker contracted by the Alabama Department of Human Resources, the state’s child protective services agency

As you might expect, there are quite disturbing details in the article.

  • large_goblin [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    I don’t disagree with the logic here, although I would say it does not apply universally, I mostly feel the need to question the example of comparing leaving your phone to leaving a child, which I think makes light of how seriously impaired someone must be to make such a mistake and also how extreme the consequences are. I don’t think it’s helpful at all to say someone capable of one is capable of the other.

    • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      which I think makes light of how seriously impaired someone must be to make such a mistake and also how extreme the consequences are

      The point is that this can happen without impairment. You don’t need to be impaired for your brain to just not fuckin work and no matter how relatively important you think remembering one thing is over another, that’s not how memory works.