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Question: What to Do When Child Left in Car?

There is no excuse for leaving a child unattended inside a car, no matter the temperature. That was tragically illustrated recently in Orofino and Lewiston. A child is dead and a family is grieving as a result. On July 4, a 15-month-old Orofino-area boy was left alone inside a vehicle for several hours with temperatures soaring into the triple digits. He was dead by the time he was discovered, and his step-grandmother has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Less than a week later, a Lewiston woman has been charged with one count of felony injury to a child after leaving her 9-week-old son inside a scorching-hot car for more than 30 minutes. Fortunately, the child survived despite temperatures in the car having reached as high as 140 degrees -- Moscow Pullman Daily News.

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Question: What would you do if you saw a small child alone in a car?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.