Why do People Still do This?

 BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - A three-year-old boy died when his dentist father left him inside a sport utility vehicle for three hours, officials said.

Dr. Dennis F. Sierra took his son Andres to work with him Thursday and left the boy in the car, intending to be in the office for only a short time, Palm Beach County sheriff's spokeswoman Diane Carhart said.

A relative called Sierra about three hours later to ask about the boy, and the father and office employees rushed to the car to find Andres was not breathing.

The boy died about an hour later at West Boca Medical Center.

It was not immediately known if any charges would be filed. Sierra was not arrested Thursday, said his lawyer, Michael Salnick.

``This is an absolute tragedy, a nightmare,'' Salnick said. ``Total devastation is the only way to describe how Dr. Sierra feels.''

An autopsy was planned.

07/16/04 08:52 EDT

Why oh why do people still do this???? It makes me sooooooo sad to hear of such a senseless tragedy and makes me sooooo mad that people just don't think!! Hasn't there been enough of these incidents now that the whole world must be aware of the danger!!? This man was well educated to say the least and yet still appeared not to have common sense.

The other day at work I had my windows up in the van because they had been calling for rain. It was a cloudy day off and on and when the sun did come through it was only for brief moments, yet when I went out to go home at 2:00, the thermometer read 114 degress F, that's 43 or 44 degrees C!!! It literally was an oven in there.

My heart goes out to this boys family and especially the father, even though it was a careless act, I can't imagine trying to live with that for the rest of my life