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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Mon Jun 7, 2021, 02:04 PM Jun 2021

(Ca) Girl dies after being left in hot car in San Joaquin Valley

VISALIA, Calif. (AP) — Police say a 3-year-old girl died after her mother left her in a car for several hours while she worked at a marijuana grow in the San Joaquin Valley.

The Visalia Police Department said the car's doors were closed, its windows were up, and the outdoor temperature was about 100 degrees when officers went to the parked vehicle on Thursday.

Jessica Campos was found unresponsive and died after being taken a hospital. Investigators conducted interviews and learned that the girl's mother had been tending to a pot grow while her child was in the car for about 3 hours.

The mother was arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.

https://www.10news.com/news/national/girl-dies-after-being-left-in-hot-car-in-san-joaquin-valley

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ShazamIam

(2,702 posts)
1. Dumb shit mother, but we live in a nation that demands that poor mothers work, but
Mon Jun 7, 2021, 02:27 PM
Jun 2021

the wages are insufficient to cover child care and the child car available to poorer workers is sometimes as dangerous as a hot car.
Republicans call national child care, an atheist commie idea meant do destroy the sacred family.

Our system is murderous to the working and laboring classes.



*edit: pooor/poor


StrictlyRockers

(3,896 posts)
2. Well said.
Mon Jun 7, 2021, 04:24 PM
Jun 2021

Universal child care like they have in most modern countries would solve this problem. The USA is a backward nation.

pidge

(274 posts)
3. She was "tending to a pot grow" according to the article. I don't
Mon Jun 7, 2021, 05:32 PM
Jun 2021

know if she was actually working there or not.

LizBeth

(10,821 posts)
4. Sounds like a job to me. Here in Oregon you get paid almost a liveable wage.
Mon Jun 7, 2021, 06:10 PM
Jun 2021

Closer to 15 an hour than other jobs.

ShazamIam

(2,702 posts)
5. And are we expecting fair and accurate reporting about a story with such sensationalist propaganda
Mon Jun 7, 2021, 07:56 PM
Jun 2021

possibilities?

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