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Gabriel Josh Cazir Pierre, 17 months

Gabriel

Boston Police have posted photos and a statement from Virginia Cazir, mother of Gabriel Josh Cazir Pierre, who died in the back of that van in Dorchester:

Our family is heartbroken over the loss of our beautiful son, Gabriel. Gabriel was a very happy child and his picture says everything. We are asking everyone to please be respectful of our privacy as we try to grieve and cope with our unimaginable circumstance.

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by every single aspect of this story.

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Family loses a child, man loses his bus, woman loses her kindergarten business... Bad news at every corner on this one.

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incredibly incompetent bus driver loses right to oversee innocent children, woman loses daycare that should have been shut down long before this tracic occurence.

rip gabriel josh cazir pierre, you deserved much more from those who cared for you.

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...get transported in these vans? And how could anyone not notice that he left an infant in the van? (I can imagine a bus driver missing a kid curled up on a seat at the back of a big school bus -- but not missing a baby in a baby carrier in a small van).

The whole story is just too sad.

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The blame machine gets revved up. How could this ever happen? Who could forget a baby in the back of a vehicle? Who is this woman running this fly-by-night operation with her incompetent husband?

Read this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html (Thanks Miss M)

before you go off looking for someone to hang from a tree.

We should definitely be looking at systemic problems, not just individual malfeasance, that lead to things like this. First off, affordable, decent childcare.

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I used to be one of "those" people who could not believe someone could be so incompetent/stupid/brainless/self-centered/clueless as to leave a child in a car. Then, about a year ago, I read this article.

Please, before you go off on a rant, read this article, the whole article. Then, and only then, let us know how you feel.

Thanks.

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this was not some stressed out wall street guy or overburdened mother forgetting a baby in the car. this was a guy who had one job, getting children from point A to point B.

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The whole point of the article is that even the best of people/parents can screw up. As much as we try to avoid these unfortunate events, it happens. I'm not saying we should just accept it when it does happen, but to simply step back for a second and think about it.
Besides, maybe the van driver has his own problems. He's not immune to personal issues which can affect his job.

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This is a tragedy for every single person involved. I can see exactly how one could forget a baby in a vehicle. If the dignified statement put out by the child's family is any indication of the kind of people they are, I bet they will forgive this poor man and his wife while people who have no stake in this can rave about how they would never do anything of the sort. I'd be afraid a lightening bolt might hit me, but to each his own smug sense of self-righteousness.

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Whew... what a read... I'll never look at these situations the same. Previously I'm always hesitant to give benefit of the doubt in such matters, but after that I certainly will.

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