This really doesn’t fit into the category of horrifying mistake. As far as I can tell she left them in the car all night while she partied with a friend, drove home at 8am, and left them in the car while she slept it off. I’m not saying she deliberately tried to harm them but this is a series of grossly negligent actions, not the kind of horrific (and easy to make) mistake that the article you linked is talking about.
Unbelievably sad. I recall reading a Pulitzer prize winning article about this scenario and it is the most heartbreaking thing you can read.
This situation sounds a little more negligent than most, but I’ll withhold any judgement and mourn the child’s loss.
The article in question, for anyone looking for an emotionally devastating read this morning: https://web.archive.org/web/20140617051424/http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html
This really doesn’t fit into the category of horrifying mistake. As far as I can tell she left them in the car all night while she partied with a friend, drove home at 8am, and left them in the car while she slept it off. I’m not saying she deliberately tried to harm them but this is a series of grossly negligent actions, not the kind of horrific (and easy to make) mistake that the article you linked is talking about.