<p>He drives a Hundai Tuscon. </p>
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<p>how in the world could he not see this kid when he backed in</p>
<p>Can someone please post links to the original story? All that’s turning up when I search are follow up articles</p>
<p>The follow up stories should link to the original story which occurred on June 18. Much of the parking for employees is in parking decks. </p>
<p>Am guessing he backed his car into a spot in the parking deck. Don’t know how well lit it is. suspect he’ll say he saw the carseat which is always there and didn’t see his son even though he is taller than the seat. Will probably say he fell asleep an his head was tilted or something. Also suspect they’ve improved the clasps in the carseats since our kids were small such that they can’t open them and climb out. The bigger evidence will probably come from what they find on his computers and phones. </p>
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<p>This about sums it up.</p>
<p>He said he strapped his son in tightly. I think he did it tight enough that there was no way his son could get out of the car seat. Also they said that the car seat protruded in between the front seats so there is no way he didn’t know his son was there.</p>
<p>“Ross Harris’ father also spoke to the crowd, saying his son Ross had a dream Cooper was sitting on Jesus’ lap looking down at them, BEFORE the boy’s death. Harris told him he was playing a guitar in the dream and Leanna was working in a nursery with other children.”</p>
<p>ugh…</p>
<p>Wonder if they can hire real toddlers same age, weight, height and put them in the same type car seat in the same type car and have each of the jurors sit in the car, back it up, grab a computer bag from the passenger side … and see if they notice that there is a child in the car?</p>
<p>If they can show it was impossible not to notice a child in the car, could that show intent?</p>
<p>^^^
Thats exactly what the jury is convened to decide. But a good prosecutor would do something very similar to what you describe. Unlike most murder scenes this one is easily replicated.</p>
<p>Sounds like a plan, 3 scout. With that seat so close to the driver it wouldn’t matter if he was deaf in one ear.</p>
<p>I am baffled by the rear-facing carseat. It’s been a long time, but I remember using rear-facing carseats for a relatively short time. Aren’t babies put in front-facing carseats when they can hold their heads up, around 6 months? And all carseats have weight and height ranges. From what I’ve read, this boy was way too big for the carseat he was in. </p>
<p>NYMom, From googling , it looks like pediatricians changed the guidelines in 2011 to recommend parents keep their kids in rear facing car seats until age 2 (unless they exceed height and weight limits) for better support of the head and better outcomes in crashes. </p>
<p>They have changed the recommendations to keep kids rear facing until two now but in car seats that meet the child’s size!</p>
<p>"During a probable cause hearing on Thursday, Cobb County Police Detective Phil Stoddard testified that the boy was ‘several inches’ too big for the child seat, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.</p>
<p>He added that the parents had bought a new, forward-facing child seat just six weeks ago but they switched back to his old seat for reasons that are not yet clear."</p>
<p>Maybe it was so he wouldn’t see his face when he left him to die.</p>
<p>The newest recommendations are that infants and toddlers up to at least 2 years old should be in rear-facing carseats and then should switch to front facing carseats after that or when they outgrow the carseat. When my kids were little, the recommendation was to switch to front-facing when they were one year old. My daughter hated the rear-facing seat and cried every time we went anywhere, so I’m not sure I could have lasted for 2 years. And my kids always made their presence known in the car, unless they were asleep. This case is just baffling and so horrible.</p>
<p>That’s interesting - I hadn’t known that the recommendations had changed. I imagine that a lot of toddlers are very unhappy with this!</p>
<p>Guilty. No doubt about it. </p>
<p>Ross Harris was already in jail by the time that Leanne Harris spoke at Cooper’s funeral. It had already come out that the Ross was sexting various women inside his place of employment while his son lay dying in his car. How could she then stand up and say to a crowd of people that she was not angry or upset with her husband and go on to say what a wonderful father he was? Who does she think she is kidding?</p>
<p>Not us…</p>