Another Adopted Child Dies
I am sitting here on my couch, the usual place that I work and my fingers just won’t move across my keyboard. They keep deleting the drivel that I write. Drivel…Crap.
I want to scurry through this post to get it out there on the Internet so you can read it but I can bring myself to write what is really in my heart. No, my stomach. Yes, my heart is in my stomach.
Yesterday’s post was about how I wanted to write about the truth and how I wanted to be fair to people being scrutinized by the media (of course, I am the media too). But I realize that I feel way too much to be fair to everyone. I have too many damn opinions. So, I’ll just let my voice out and if you don’t agree so be it. If you do, great.
Take this case from today’s news (you know…the one where my heart hits my stomach?); 49 year old Miles Harrison left his 21 month old son Chase Harrison, adopted just a few months ago from Russia (yes, AGAIN we kill them) in the car for the entire day.
Herndon Police Chief Toussaint E. Summers Jr. said Harrison was supposed to take Chase to day care. Instead, Harrison drove to work, and Chase sat in the SUV outside the building, in the 500 block of Herndon Parkway, for “at least several hours,” Summers said. Exactly how long remains unclear. The high temperature Tuesday was about 90 degrees.
ad_iconZorger said Harrison arrived at work at the real estate consulting firm “sometime in the morning,” and police said they received an emergency call about 5 p.m. that someone was performing CPR on an unresponsive child.
I CAN see how a newly adoptive father could forget his son in the car if his wife normally takes him to day care or if they just started taking him to day care. It is certainly not his routine, right? But, wouldn’t you think about how your son was doing at day care and THINK…oh gosh? I remember having a dream last night (I was babysitting for Kyra Sedgewick and Kevin Bacon’s infant) in which I set the baby down and walked away to get something for her. After I walked away I forgot about her for a short period of time (hmmm…foreshadowing my fears about Gus?) but I didn’t leave her for more than five minutes in the DREAM.
How could a father forget ALL day? Was the child too much of a burden and they planned this like that CSI episode? Or, was it simply an accident?
Apparently, Harrison fainted upon hearing of his son’s death and is in medical care at the moment. He faces up to ten years for involuntary manslaughter.
this is such a sad story. We recently had a few of these (not adopted but still children) cases. One father completely forgot, another mom couldn’t afford so she thought a few hours, another got out of the routine and forgot, etc. I know some are true accidents but then there are some that simply don’t care or they just no longer want them. It is a sad world sometimes, one reason I’ve focused on all the news stories I report at Babylune. I know there is sunshine for the most part but I don’t want those children to go unheard of either. HUGS to you, I know you need it today.
I am Mommy to an 18 month old, who is on my mind 24/7. I’m also 9 months pregnant with my second and she is on my mind 24/7. I can’t imagine their pain and loss, but I also cannot imagine how your toddler, new to your life or with you since birth can ever leave your mind long enough to be forgotten. My heart is sick for the loss of such an innocent life. My mother worked with a gentleman who had forgotten his 5 month old in his car at work for 4 hrs. It wasn’t until his wife called him to ask if he had taken the day off, that he realized. The poor man had a nervous breakdown from the guilt and his life was tragicaly altered. Adopted or not, life is too precious for such tragic loss.
Yes, life is too precious.
Apparently the father had a heart attack and is still hospitalized and I can see why his body gave way. Grief can be hard on the body.
It is pretty obvious that this is an accident and I only hope the family finds peace.