A Texas mother was taken into custody Tuesday after police alleged her 22-month-old child died when she left the infant in a car outside a Corpus Christi school on one of the hottest days of the year.

The mother, 33-year-old Hilda Ann Adame, was jailed on charges of causing serious bodily injury to a child and child endangerment/abandonment with imminent bodily injury, according to a Corpus Christi Police Department incident report.

It was not clear how long the infant had been in the car before the baby was found unresponsive, according to the incident report.

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      In a place like Texas, it is equivalent to saying “if they just used the teleporter this wouldn’t have happened”.

      It essentially shifts discussion off the matter at hand, into abstract, unsolvable issues.

      Before you jump on “unsolvable”: I mean this mother, this particular family, has no immediate option to take another course, and not use cars.

      SOCIETY should move to a less car dependant future. THIS FAMILY has no power to enact that. Saying “just move” is a statement of privilege.

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          It’s not about taking it a certain way.

          Its not contextually relevant to the situation of the article.

          It’s not conversationally interesting because it’s practically a platitude.

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              The “situation” in the article is about one family. Not society. So the comments about infrastructure and car reliance are out of band.

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                  Absurd.

                  It makes no sense to bring a global issue to a micro scale one.

                  Else, I wish we lived in a post scarcity utopia where benevolent robot nannies watched the children while adults just live in bliss and never need to go anywhere.

                  How is that relevant?

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        Sure. But that’s not my point. I just see another reason why the US should really think about there way of transport and see it as what it is: (pretty much) the most deadly form of transit possible.

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      Because it’s extremely fucked up to assume the person had a choice. Do you generally go around impoverished countries telling children they were stupid for choosing to be born in such a poor area?

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      I’m all in on the fuck cars thing. I’ve wanted to get involved locally advocating for improved public transit and bike lanes. It’s affected how I’ve ranked local candidates while voting.

      That said, this happened in Texas. The vast majority of that state is so carbrained that there aren’t any viable alternatives to driving right now, and for a mother with kids it’s so far away it’d take decades of work even if all of the Texas government woke up tomorrow and dedicated themselves to alternatives to cars. I don’t drive and I live in one of the best cities for cyclists in the US and I’d still find it tough to go without a car if I had kids.

      In context the fuck cars comment just kinda comes across as victim blamey, tbh.

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        That argument applies to virtually the entire country, zoned specifically to sell cars, with few recent exceptions. I’m not blaming the mom for that situation, I’m not sure why anyone would think that. This is just another death that seems to at least partially implicate big oil, big auto, and corrupt politicians.