An 18-month-old girl was found dead in a hot car overnight, after her parents left her to attend a Fourth of July party. She's the fifth Florida child to die in a hot car this year.
An 18-month-old girl was found dead in a hot car overnight, after her parents left her to attend a Fourth of July party.
“This child has suffered a torturous death. An absolute torturous death,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. “The baby still had a core temperature of 104.4 degrees and this was three hours after the baby was taken out of the hot car.” Kids and Car Safety reports that it’s actually rare for drugs and alcohol to be involved in hot car tragedies. The“There’s so many ways that this happens. I always like to remind families that nobody wakes up and thinks today is going to be the day some kind of tragedy happens to my family. But we’ve seen five of the ten deaths happen in Florida so far,” Jessica Winberry said with Safe Kids Northeast Florida.
“Every one of these situations unfortunately even though sometimes mistakes are made could have possibly been prevented,” Winberry said.
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