Toddler dies after being left in hot car .....HORRIBLE!!!!

[olena]

A 3-year-old girl, left in a hot car for hours while her mother began her first day at work, died Wednesday afternoon.
Nakia Burgess, 28, of Stone Mountain has been charged with murder and cruelty to children in connection with the death of Asante Burgess. According to police, Wednesday was Burgess' first day at work in the Tower Walk office building complex at Piedmont Road and Peachtree Street. Burgess took Asante with her to work, but left her strapped in the baby seat of her car, police said.
When she went back to check on Asante, she found her unconscious. Asante was taken to Scottish Rite hospital, where she died a short time later. Hospital officials said Asante's temperature was 108 degrees upon her arrival.
Burgess is scheduled to appear in Municipal Court at 9:30 a.m. Thursday.


I haven't been able to confirm this, but I'd heard that the child had Downs Syndrome and a heart condition. She parked the car on the top level....in direct sunlight. She apparently checked on the girl periodically, but found her unconscious in the afternoon. It was her first day of work at a new job. This just makes me want to cry.

 

[dizneenut]

That poor little baby!

 

[dedala]

This kind of thing happens all the time , my god what are people thinking?
That poor baby may God bless her ...

 

[JAP]

God be with that child.

And the mother.... I just do not understand people!!!

 

[Robinrs]

Yes, Heather, the child had Downs Syndrome and had just had open heart surgery, which really confuses me as to HOW a human being can do this to her much less her MOTHER!! I know better than to leave a DOG in a hot car!

The excuse? A new job! This woman will live in her own personal hell forever for this stupidity.

 

[LvsTnk]

 

[Saffron]

 

[pooh6890]

People are screened at the Animal Shelter before they can adopt a pet. Anyone idiot can have a child.....what a shame We read these stories every day. Honestly, how does one forget their child in the car? Either that person is too busy and really needs to evaluate their life or use birth control.

 

[robinb]

Poor little thing!

I searched for the story and didn't find anything more than what you wrote. My bet is that the mother could not find affordable child care for her daughter and felt she had to bring her to work. I am usually not in favor of charging parents with murder when children are left in hot car because most of the time it's a tragic accident. In this case, it was intentional . Still, I feel sorry for the mother too ... she lost her child by doing something stupid.

 

[Cindy B]

robinb--you took the words right out of my mouth... could she not afford child care? How scared must she have been? The child had no idea what was going on!

That mother will live with this her entire life.

Sad, very very sad

 

[Claudia1]

Yes, this sounds intentional!

 

[Blondie]

Sickening!

 

[EROS]

This woman is NOT Public Enemy #1; she's NOT on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list. She made a horrific and tragic mistake and will have to live with her loss for the rest of her life. I feel compassion for her, not rage............... If some of you want to beat up upon her and say that even a worm has more maternal judgment, then knock yourself out ..........

 

[LisaTx]

Originally posted by EROS
This woman is NOT Public Enemy #1; she's NOT on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list. She made a horrific and tragic mistake...

Do you know her personally? Do you know for a fact that it was a mistake? Her child had multiple medical problems. Maybe she felt the child was a burden. Maybe she has heard about all of the other times this has happened, where the individual responsible was given a slap on the wrist, and decided this would be an easy way to rid herself of her burden? Maybe she truly does have the intelligence of a worm.

I don't know all of the facts, so I'll reserve judgement, but at this time, compassion isn't at the top of my list of feelings.

 

[cmbelle]

She couldn't find anyone to watch her child? Was it a last minute call to start a job; usually you get some notice before you start a job - time to find childcare. I can't even imagine how this woman could justify leaving her child in the car all day while she went to work.

We just had a 2-year old die because she was left in a van. A child care worker picked up the child (only ONE child), drove back to the school, and then forgot her in the van. How could he forget just one child? There are no charges being filed.

 

[Nancy]

Sorry..but I can't feel compassion for her. I usually will not post on these threads, but this is an issue that just burns my butt big time!!

The only person we should be showing compassion for is the poor dead baby!!!

I couldn't even imagine the terror she was feeling. Yes, that Mom will have to live with this the rest of her life, but at least she still has hers.

 

[Girls Scout Leader]

Compassion for the mother? NEVER! Imagine what that baby went through....so hot, thirsty, confused, just wanting mom to come back and make her better...she got caught this time...if she had done something like this to her own baby, I can only guess what else she has done to her before that no one knew a bout. Hard to believe that this is and isolated child endagerment.

And one more thing while I'm venting...I have always thought that the punishment should fit the crime......I would leave her strapped in a seat in the sun locked in a hot car for hours[/COLOR]

 

[EROS]

I Love the smell of the DIS in the morning.............it reminds me of.............NAPALM ........

 

[EROS]

Mother of toddler who died in hot car placed on suicide watch

By BILL MONTGOMERY
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer

The mother of a 3-year-old girl who died Wednesday after being left in a hot car for hours is "terribly distraught" and has been placed on suicide watch, her lawyer said today.

Nakia Burgess, 28, of Stone Mountain, has been charged with murder and cruelty to children in connection with the death of Ashante Monea Burgess.

Attorney Phinia Y. Aten said Burgess came to Atlanta in February from the Trenton, N.J., area, and was trying to support her ailing 3-year-old daughter through temporary jobs.

Ashante had Down's Syndrome and had been operated on when she was only 6 months old for a leaky heart valve, Aten said.

Burgess had just started as a transcriptionist in the Tower Walk office complex at Piedmont and Peachtree roads at around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and brought her child with her because her sister, who normally kept the child, was at work.

"She didn't want to miss work and be fired; that was her worry," Aten said.

Burgess was not working a full eight-hour day and "came out twice to check on her," Aten said.

"Nakia's plan was to show up at work and stick her face in so she could save her job," Aten said.

The last time she went out to check on Ashante, she found her unconscious. Ashante was taken to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, where she died a short time later.

Hospital officials said Ashante's temperature was 108 degrees upon her arrival. Atlanta's high temperature on Wednesday was 85 degrees -- just 4 degrees shy of the record high for the date.

Aten said her client will plead not guilty.


I'm sure that members of the HEH club could come up with some sadistic tortures for this woman

 

[Kelsie]

As a 'labeled' member of the HEH Club all I have to say is that this is very, very sad.