Girl, 5, dies in locked car left in sun for hours

By The Nation

 

Picture: Komchadluek

 

A five-year-old girl died of suffocation in a car on Monday after being left in the locked vehicle for hours at her school in Khon Kaen.

 

A teacher picked up Kabinta Kehphuang from her home in the morning to take her to school because the kindergarten's bus was out of order.

 

However, she forgot the child was in the car when she arrived at the school and locked her car. She only remembered the child was still in the vehicle when she returned to her car after classes finished at 4.30pm.

 

A post mortem by the district hospital found that the girl died of suffocation as the car was left in sunlight throughout the day with all the windows closed.

 

The female teacher, whose name was withheld, teaches at Ban Cham Phuthong Kindergarten in Moo 1 village in Tambon Huay Muang in Phupha Man district.

 

The district chief, Phayung Lekdee, said the teacher picked up the girl from her home but somehow forgot her when she reached the school.

 

The teacher was in shock, the district chief added.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30348092

 

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The teacher was in shock  !! Well i for 1 dont give a rats a++e about that.

What about the poor child, yes she was in shock and later died, because of that teachers lack of care.

Maybe if someone checked her smartphone, it would show her using it during the time the poor unfortunate girl was suffering, sad very sad  tragic.

R.I.P. little angel.

Are these people brain dead ?

What a tragedy - for the parents - the poor girl (how much she might have suffered, I don't want to think about details) - and the teacher.

More than likely she died because this stupid teacher was thinking about what she was going to eat that day.

2 hours ago, tracker1 said:

Are these people brain dead ?

In this country, brain death often remains undetected for years.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

picked up the girl from her home but somehow forgot her

typical Thai, no brain. AND no punishment.

Goldfish spring to my mind........Once around the bowl, and everything completely forgotten. Shows you the standard of teachers here....

R.I.P. Innocent one.

These *self censored* *self censored* *self censored*  really *self censored*  are something *self censored*  else.

 

I've never come across such *self censored*  brain-dead *self censored*  in my life.

 

 

RIP Little One. Shame that you were left in the ahem, duty of care (of course that doesn't exist here and the locals have no concept of it) of a teacher! 

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

 

Leave your children in the 'care' of Thai raised and educated Thais as little as possible. 

there was a similar case some months ago, when the bus driver caused the passing of a student isn't it. Hope this is not becoming a trend.
May she RIP

Same kind of tragedies happen all over the world.  It's not a Thai specific phenomena.  My folks found me sleeping in the back of the station wagon several hours after they couldn't find me and got the cops looking for me.  Thank goodness it was Chicago in the spring and I was more likely to freeze than die of the heat.

 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The district chief, Phayung Lekdee, said the teacher picked up the girl from her home but somehow forgot her when she reached the school.

 

Leum.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The teacher was in shock

What a damn drama. God - speechless 

 

Have some pity on the teacher ALL you self righteous pricks! Haven't any one of you done anything out of the ordinary and forgotten about it?? Trying to do a favour turned to <deleted> = very sad for all concerned!

12 minutes ago, bdenner said:

Have some pity on the teacher ALL you self righteous pricks! Haven't any one of you done anything out of the ordinary and forgotten about it?? Trying to do a favour turned to <deleted> = very sad for all concerned!

Are you for real? Have some pity on a bloody woman who through her own negligence a poor inocent young girl lost her life.

Stop drinking or whatever you are on, it is affecting your brain.

Here we have the forensic expert who knows ALL the details of this incident! Do you really believe this teacher left the child in the car on purpose???

 

Grab a brain before consulting the keyboard!

Maybe if schools started at a less ungodly hour, staff and students might both be a little more alert. Kids getting up at five then not eating again until lunchtime is more like torture than education. No wonder all they want to do is sleep!

Jail the imbecilic teacher, sterilize her so she can never have a child OF HER OWN to “BAKE” and impose a LIFE BAN on her EVER being allowed with 100 mtrs of ANY CHILD.

1 hour ago, impulse said:

Same kind of tragedies happen all over the world.  It's not a Thai specific phenomena.  My folks found me sleeping in the back of the station wagon several hours after they couldn't find me and got the cops looking for me.  Thank goodness it was Chicago in the spring and I was more likely to freeze than die of the heat.

 

Did your parents as in this case forget you were in there 

As much as the result was a tragedy, and it's of little consolation to the family, this would be ridiculously easy to do.

 

She's heading to work, sees the kid missed the bus or whatever and tells her to get in. The kid immediately falls asleep on the back seat and slides down out of view. The teacher has stuff on her mind and, by the time she gets to the school, she's forgotten that the kid was ever in her car. It's not like she always has the kid there like a parent with a child of her own.

 

The teacher didn't choose for the kid to fall asleep, she didn't decide to make Thailand a tropical country, and she didn't choose for no one to discover the kid all day or for the kid not to be able to raise the alarm (if she even woke up). She did one thing, forgot the kid was in her car.

 

It could happen to anyone.

3 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

As much as the result was a tragedy, and it's of little consolation to the family, this would be ridiculously easy to do.

 

She's heading to work, sees the kid missed the bus or whatever and tells her to get in. The kid immediately falls asleep on the back seat and slides down out of view. The teacher has stuff on her mind and, by the time she gets to the school, she's forgotten that the kid was ever in her car.

 

The teacher didn't choose for the kid to fall asleep, she didn't decide to make Thailand a tropical country, and she didn't choose for no one to discover the kid all day or for the kid not to be able to raise the alarm (if she even woke up). She did one thing, forgot the kid was in her car.

 

It could happen to anyone.

BS

2 minutes ago, oldlakey said:

BS

None of what I have written is implausible or unreasonable.

54 minutes ago, bdenner said:

Have some pity on the teacher ALL you self righteous pricks! Haven't any one of you done anything out of the ordinary and forgotten about it?? Trying to do a favour turned to <deleted> = very sad for all concerned!

no, actually i have never done anything out of the ordinary that resulted in a dead child.

criminal negligence at the very least.

i dont see how this could possibly be rationalized away, and would recommend you stay away from any similar responsibility yourself.

 

7 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

As much as the result was a tragedy, and it's of little consolation to the family, this would be ridiculously easy to do.

 

She's heading to work, sees the kid missed the bus or whatever and tells her to get in. The kid immediately falls asleep on the back seat and slides down out of view. The teacher has stuff on her mind and, by the time she gets to the school, she's forgotten that the kid was ever in her car. It's not like she always has the kid there like a parent with a child of her own.

 

The teacher didn't choose for the kid to fall asleep, she didn't decide to make Thailand a tropical country, and she didn't choose for no one to discover the kid all day or for the kid not to be able to raise the alarm (if she even woke up). She did one thing, forgot the kid was in her car.

 

It could happen to anyone.

utter <deleted>, this is way more than an oops i forgot.

1 minute ago, BangkokReady said:

None of what I have written is implausible or unreasonable.

Thats a matter of opinion my good man when you consider very carefully what this teacher is guilty of

Don't schoolteachers take an attendance record each morning? (used to be done morning and afternoon when I was at school).

 

Don't they contact a parent if a child is absent without an expanation?

 

How can a child be unaccounted for without some sort of investigation by the school?

1 hour ago, bdenner said:

Have some pity on the teacher ALL you self righteous pricks! Haven't any one of you done anything out of the ordinary and forgotten about it?? Trying to do a favour turned to <deleted> = very sad for all concerned!

I've never left a 5 year old child in a car for a whole day.

 

15 minutes ago, HooHaa said:

utter <deleted>, this is way more than an oops i forgot.

It is literally a case of oops I forgot. It just happens that oops I forgot meant a child died.

15 minutes ago, oldlakey said:

Thats a matter of opinion my good man when you consider very carefully what this teacher is guilty of

It is a matter of opinion, of course, but I think you are letting the outcome cloud your judgement of the action. It is a tragic accident, but an accident none the less.