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It’s disturbing how common stories like this are. The basic elements are these, a boy and girl, brother and sister, both 3, were found dead in a parked car outside their Kansas house. Apparently both had spent 2 hours in the car. The Associated Press is reporting that:

The temperature was about 75 degrees when the children were found Sunday afternoon, two hours after they were reported missing, authorities said. Shawnee County Sheriff’s Sgt. Akim Reynolds said the temperature inside a car with its windows up could have reached 20 to 30 degrees warmer.

The girl, who was about to turn 4 next month, was pronounced dead at the scene. The boy, who had just turned 3 on Aug. 2, was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The mother was being questioned by detectives. The children’s father, who Reynolds said worked out of town, had been notified and was returning to Topeka.

The sad moral of this story is, don’t lock your kids in the car! Don’t lock your dogs in the car for that matter either. When I hear these stories I wonder if the parents are homicidal or simply negligent. There is no way to reasonably explain why things like this happen, but hopefully something can be learned by the rest of us. Whether it be kids, the elderly, or animals, don’t let them sit in a car unattended for more than a minute or two at most.