Sometimes there are inexplicable stories, which no matter how much you try to understand, you don't succeed, but they happen. Unfortunately, they happen. Forgetting a child is one of them, and many times the thing ends up fatal because you forget it inside the car, or on the roof while you put things inside, etc., putting your baby's life at risk.
This time everything ended well, although the mother got a good scare: a few days ago he forgot the youngest of his childrentwo months sitting in the car seat inside a shopping cart in a supermarket. In social networks he has received hundreds of criticisms, but also hundreds of messages of support, and in an interview he said that "It was a terrible mistake" and that she is "a good mother".
How it all happened
Her name is Cherish Peterson, she is 27 years old and a mother of four children. Last Monday he went to the supermarket to buy candy to celebrate his nephew's birthday and to make the purchase easier he took a shopping cart in which he put his two-month-old baby with his seat.
Well, at the time of returning home, and after paying, he put the purchase in the car and left the "empty" car outside the supermarket (empty of bags, but occupied by the baby, of course).
Upon arriving home, entering the garage, his three-year-old daughter asked: "Where is the baby Huxton?". At that moment she turned to look for her baby, whom she always places just behind her seat, to realize that there was no one there.
Meanwhile, in the supermarket ...
The baby was not alone. A Phoenix police officer found the car with the baby inside and left it at the "Supercuts" hairdresser next to the supermarket, explaining the situation, in order to start the search for parents:
The "Supercuts" beauty salon is right next to the supermarket where mom bought There he remained until the mother picked him up again. According to her, everything happened in 40 minutes, the time the baby was without her since he left it until he finally recovered it. According to witnesses, the baby was two hours without her.
You can imagine the face that people left in the beauty salon when they were visited by an unexpected baby. It was such a stir, I miss the situation, that one of the workers took a picture and posted it on her Facebook With the status "Someone has left a baby outside my beauty salon!":
There he was attended by the hairdressers and police officers, and was good at all times, as they say. In the photos, at least, he looks quite calm, despite the temporary abandonment (normal, on the other hand ... with two months what he was going to know everything that was happening):
Interview with the mother at CBS
The television wanted to interview the mother to explain what happened, while on social networks they accuse her of being a bad mother, of probably drinking, and of not understanding how can you go with four children to buy and become with three, without realizing that you have left the smallest.
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There, at CBS, he said it was 40 minutes and not two hours, as the witnesses said, but it was still too long, and he added a detail that explains everything. He went out to buy and he left his children in the car. He parked near the door, as he usually does not, left the children inside, but took the child. When he left, he forgot that he had taken it and left the car with the baby inside, thinking that the four were in the car.
In addition, in his defense, he said that there is nothing he likes more in this world than being a mother, and that there is no one in this world who can love her children more than she.
Meanwhile, while the critics rained, a growing group of people wanted to subtract iron from the matter and support it, despite its dismissal, and under the hashtag #IStandWithCherish and even with a Facebook page, they began their defense with messages of the type : "It is a mistake that could happen to anyone", "I understand it because mothers are sometimes so tired that we activate the autopilot" or "I'm sure it's a great mother". They have even shared images:
What do you think of this? Is it normal to leave your baby?
Those who support him say that it is normal, that these things can happen. I say no, that it is not normal, that this cannot happen, that it doesn't have to happen. Yes, that there are times that you are overcome by circumstances, stressed to unexpected levels and that you no longer know very well what you do, but To the point of forgetting your son?
The fault here is how it acted. You can't leave your children alone in the car, or let it be a moment. Or you are going to buy without them, or if you go with them, you take them with you. You get all the children down, go in, shop, go out with them and put them all in the car again. What is a mess? Yes, that's life with children, a constant mess, but that's what it is. It is the way of not doing strange things like leaving three and taking one and then not remembering that you have taken it (if someone can reach that level of absenteeism).
And not, I don't think it's a bad mother. Surely he tells the truth and he loves them madly, but you will tell me why he has four children. But without being a bad mother, I think it is a reckless mother. I never leave my children alone in the car, even for a moment. If you have come, go down with me and go up with me, precisely to prevent one day it seems normal that they are there alone and spend more time than recommended, or when I come back I find some undesirable surprise.
