Toddler boy dies after daycare forgets him in hot van for 4 HOURS: Police
Police estimated temperatures inside the van reached 113 degrees
Police estimated temperatures inside the van reached 113 degrees
Neighbors claimed the 2-year-old had been left in the car a week prior to the deadly incident
An Oregon mother who allegedly forgot to take her 21-month-old daughter to day care and instead left her in the car as she went to her nursing job, asked prosecutors to drop the second-degree manslaughter charges they filed against her. The Oregonian reported that Nicole Engler’s lawyer David Terry wrote in a statement Thursday that his client …
An Illinois mother is accused of leaving her 2-month-old daughter in a hot car while she was inside her home guzzling booze. Police reportedly arrived at the East Chicago home on June 15 following reports of a disturbance. There, the baby’s father told officers that his daughter’s mother, Alejandra Feliciano, 34, had left their child in …
Authorities charged a Mississippi mother with second-degree murder nearly a week after her 10-month-old son died in a hot car parked outside her Jackson County home. According to ABC News, police said Kash Barhonovich was left inside the car for an uncertain amount of time Thursday—when temperatures reached 90 degrees. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said …
A 1-year-old South Carolina boy died in a hot car late last month after his grandmother went inside to get her keys and lost consciousness, according to the toddler’s mother. Speaking with WYFF, Krista Nix said son Joe Avery James Lockaby spent the evening of May 31 at her stepmother’s house when the grandmother put the …
A 1-year-old Tennessee toddler is dead after her adoptive father allegedly left her in a hot car all day. The Tennesseean reported that the father told police he had dropped off the baby’s older sibling at day care but “forgot about the child” when he got to their East Nashville home on Wednesday. The girl’s mother reportedly …
A Tennessee mother was arrested on suspicion of leaving her 2-year-old son alone in an SUV on a hot Monday afternoon. Mr. Juliet Police said in a statement that officers responded to the Walgreens at 206 Crossings Lane at 2:42 p.m., following reports of a toddler left unaccompanied in the backseat of a car. Upon their arrival, …
Hours after finding a man lying face-down on the grass, a Maryland police officer reportedly jumped into action Tuesday afternoon to save a girl from a hot car. While responding to reports of an unresponsive man, Prince George’s County police Cpl. Darryl Wormuth recalled peering into a nearby car and spotting a 1 1/2-year-old girl …
A couple in Harris County, Texas, is accused of leaving their 4-year-old daughter in a hot car for nearly 40 minutes as they ate lunch at a restaurant. Antonio Hurtado, 31, and Brenda Hurtado, 30, were arrested Sunday after police allegedly caught the mother taking the unconscious girl out of the car. Police were called to 2400 block …
A baby that was born prematurely during Hurricane Irma was found dead in his mother’s car last week, as reported by PalmBeachPost. The newborn was discovered four days after his birth, last Thursday. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and Department of Children and Families’ (DCF) records allege that the child’s mother went to a West Palm …
A Missouri mother who arrived at her 1-year-old son’s day care Monday afternoon allegedly realized that she forgot to drop him off that morning. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that daycare officials and police concluded that Tate Mitchell sat in the hot van for hours on Monday. Though Mitchell’s mother arrived at Casa dia Montessori School at around …