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Baby left in hot car in Layton dies

Regardless of what charges are brought against this mother, if any, there is no punishment that would be worse that what she'll inflict on herself. Can you imagine how painful it would be to know you're the reason your baby died.

They can charge her with whatever they want, but I'm sure she's already going through her own personal hell.

I really hope they don't file charges.

This just has sad all over it. Part of me says yeah it might be good not to file charges. The other half says put her behind bars. She neglected a child to the point of death. How is that ok?

I don't care what pain this woman may or may not already feel...she forgot that her child was in the car...period! That by itself questions her motherhood and deserves punishment.

where is the obituary published?

I guess I am just hyper-protective, but I just don't understand how this happens. I watch my babies so closely, that my house is a mess. My mom keeps telling me to just work and let them play, but I never can. I need to know what they are doing, all the time. Maybe that will change when they get older. I am just horrified by this, and even more so that it keeps happening, every summer. I just don't understand how you forget you have your baby with you, and how you go in and leave that baby out in the car.

She needs to be held accountable for her negligence. Of course the loss of a child is sad, but she is the reasoning behind it. She just can't get away with murder, even if she is too stupid to remember that child she carried for nine months and caused all that pain coming out, oh and probably gave her lack of sleep for the 6 months. If they don't charge her, she needs to be part of a parenting awareness course for teenagers and others at the very least.

How can one "forget" their child? I don't understand this...

Will Parents ever learn?

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Clearfield LDS 9th Ward, 838 E. 600 South, Clearfield. He is survived by his mother, his father, Brian Scott Hadley, and two older brothers.

The mother and her family have already suffered enough. She doesn't need to be "taught a lesson" by the letter-of-the-law haters. Criminal charges would be a worthless waste of time and money.

Show a little charity and leave her alone to grieve and heal with her family.

"He who is without sin"......
I am so thankful I do not have to make such a hard decision as to decide if a mother will be taken from a family because she caused the death of one of her other children.

I pray her husband, children and family may be a great support to her and that friends and family will support her - even though they do not understand.

Good luck to her husband. He will need it.

My heart goes out to this family, it really does. To hear of these kinds of things really breaks my heart. But, how do you FORGET about a child in a car?
Wow.
God bless this woman and her family in this time of need.

This story happens every year, except a different situation, and we have got to learn. The boy who fell at the school, we know that these kinds of action can be fatal, but they still happen. People drink and drive every day, they talk on the cell phone, holding it to their ear every minute of the day. How many of us do that, yet that too is a irresponsible action that can prove fatal. My heart goes out to that mother, I can't comprehend her pain and guilt. I hope that we all start to be more aware of our actions that are unsafe to ourselves and others. I am sure all of us are not in a position to cast the first stone and all I can say is I hope we all try harder.

Each time this happens I try to understand "Why" and the question is never answered. How can anyone "forget" a child in the car???????

This family will anquish the rest of their life. I just thank God that I have not had this experience.
They will need loving hands to encircle them.

I have seen this many times (as many of you have...) - the parent stops at someones house to say hello or drop something off, and the conversation gets longer and longer and longer...very few intentionally leave their children in the car in heat like this, but many of those who are posting "why" have most likely done it at some point in time or another. Wrong? Yes. Intent to harm? I feel safe in saying no (most of the time). Sad and worth remembering the next time "you are just running in real quick" or "stopping by for a sec"? Absolutely.

Either leave the car running with A/C or take the child with us, even if only for a moment "pop-in". My heart goes out to her and her entire family.

Lat thought -let's please be careful not to be too critical of something I have seen hundreds of times in our own communities - we just got lucky that the people we stopped to see weren't that interested in inviting us in.

Any number of negligent behaviors resulting in harm or death to another human being are illegal according to our laws. Would we absolve the responsibility for killing this child so quickly if the responsible party was a babysitter? No, in that case there would be a unanimous call for justice. And to say that everyone is subject to the same kind of stupidity as this mother is to argue her innocence without evidence. Feel sorry for her if you must, but she is still accountable for the negligent death of her own child.

Just ask yourself, what would the Saviour do or say?
He would wrap His arms around her and LOVE her and and immediately forgive her. He has taken that little child unto Himself. He is safe, and now His worry is with the Mother. Will she be safe and now the test is with us. . . are we going to be forgiving and loving, and KIND and compassionate. Let us not forget what He has taught us.

I don't recall ever forgetting my babies.

I agree with Victor. There would be torches and public outcry if it were a babysitter. But the child's own parent?? As a father I simply cannot understand how you forget such a young child in a hot car for HOURS.