A 15-month old baby is dead Wednesday after his father left him inside a hot car outside his business.

43-year old Robert Reid is charged with criminally negligent homicide and aggravated child abuse and neglect.

With temperatures reaching near 90-degrees, the temperature inside a vehicle can reach well over 1-hundred.

Police say Reid left his son, Timothy in the car, thinking he had dropped him off at daycare. After several hours of extreme heat, the child died.


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This happen the next town over where I live. Now I have been a mother for over 15 years, and I have yet to think I have dropped my child off anywhere and conveniently "forgot" that they were in the car or anywhere else for that matter. And especially a 15 month old, it's not like they are quiet as a mouse at that age. Personally I'd like to , this man upside his head for doing this to an innocent child. It is truly a sad situation.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

this is a very sad thread topic

BUT IB IS BACK!!!! WELCOME BACK IB!!!!

Some guys are not very good at multi tasking. It has happened here. The toddler was sleeping in the back seat, the guy drove directly to work and forgot to stop at the daycare. He came out of work at the end of the day and it was too late.

You would think the daycare would have called either the Mom or the Dad when the child didn't show up.

girl66 said:

Well, there are more than a few stories about women leaving their babies in the car.
Stupidity has no gender or race. Just lack of active brain cells.

Some people go through life sleepwalking. This is certainly one of them.

I've heard of this happening several times. Sad but it happens

This is very sad and unfortunately it happens often.

Some people lack common sense.

Christaro said:

read that in a book.

This happens too often where I live with children and pets. It's thanks to strangers who dial 911 that some deaths are prevented. At one of the bellydance studios I attended some guy left his baby in the car while having a drink in the bar next door. 911 was called and the police arrived. It gets to be 110 degrees here.

How very sad

xplnyrslf said:

I just don't get it, though. HOWWWWW do you forget that your baby is in your car?

This story plays out like an episode of CSI.

HERE ARE THE LATEST "UPDATES" ON THIS NEGLIGENT PERSON..


43 year old Robert Reid is charged with criminally negligent homicide and aggravated child abuse and neglect. He left his son Timothy in a hot car for nearly seven hours Tuesday.

We've now learned from an affidavit that Reid's BMW is equipped with a motion detector inside the car that sounds the alarm when there's movement inside. The affidavit says Reid's alarm sounded several times. He reset it each time, even disabling the motion detector by remote because he could not see anyone around his vehicle.

"He was preoccupied with whatever was on his mind that day, obviously it wasn't on his 15 month old son," said Chattanooga Police Lt. Tim Carroll.

Lt. Carroll says Reid showed plenty of remorse during questioning Tuesday night.

"He reacted like any parent would react like any parent has lost a child," Carroll said. "Honestly, he reacted like how you'd expect somebody to react."

Carroll says the incident should be a reminder to all of us about the dangers of a hot car. The Safe Kids program demonstrates just how dangerous it can be.

"It doesn't have to be a hot sunny day," said Wes Bender from Safe Kids. "With the car windows closed, the temperature in the vehicle can rise very quickly. 19-20 Degrees in the first ten minutes is what the average shows in the tests that have been done."

Security System Could Have Saved Baby's Life



Car alarms have become so ubiquitous they hardly attract attention these days. Often, they are more likely to alert the owner to a passing car stereo instead a thief in the act.

But, had an alarm been heeded on Tuesday, a young life may have been saved. 15-month-old Timothy Reid was left in a 2002 BMW M3 for seven hours. The car is equipped with an interior motion sensor as part of its security package. We were shown the same system on an `08 model "5-series" at BMW of Chattanooga.

"It was specifically designed for entities inside the vehicle creating movement," explained Client Associate Brian Durham.

Two sensors are mounted in the inside of the roof. "Someone that you know was in there, or someone that shouldn't have been in there, it will detect any type of movement," said Durham.

And when it does it, emits an ear piercing wail. Investigators say the alarm went off several times on Tuesday as the toddler squirmed around inside the increasingly hot car. His father, Robert Reid, is said to have looked outside each time and, seeing nothing amiss around the car, he hit the reset button.

The Beemer's security system was doing what it is designed to do, but Reid never thought to check inside. Sadly, no one else did, either.

Robert Reid is charged with criminally negligent homicide and aggravated child abuse and neglect. He was released from jail Wednesday afternoon on a $15,000 bond.

that's it? 15,000 for murder?..wtf??, here's more on the story

Chattanooga police say a man disabled the car alarm that apparently sounded when his toddler son was left locked inside.

15 month old Timothy Reid was pronounced dead at the scene Tuesday afternoon after police say the father, Robert Reid, discovered he had left his son in the car for hours while he was working. According to the report, Reid has four children and dropped them off at school but didn't realize he still had the boy in his back seat in a car seat.

Reid left the car in the parking lot of Uni Shippers, a business he owns on Century Oaks Drive located near Highway 58.The report says Robert Reid's car alarm sounded several times indicating movement inside the vehicle. The report states Reid could not see anyone from his desk so he disabled the car alarm.

Police say when Reid made the discovery that his son was still in the car when he left to pick up his children from school at 3:20pm. Paramedics tried to revive the lifeless child but couldn't and he was pronounced dead at the scene. A firefighter took a reading of the temperature inside the car and it registered 142 degrees.
[Edited 5/3/07 9:02am]

Awful. I hate people.

I know a Robert Reid.