A baby girl died after she was left in a scorching hot van outside a Jacksonville, Florida, day care for nearly five hours, officials say.
Deputies were sent around 1 p.m. to the Ewing's Love & Hope Preschool and Academy, where they found a baby girl -- a few months old -- unconscious and not breathing, Jacksonville Sheriff's Assistant Chief Brian Kee said at a news conference.It's believed she suffered a"heat-related injury," Kee said. Her name was not released.
No arrests have been made but investigators are meeting with prosecutors to determine what charges are appropriate, Kee said.The temperature reached 92 degrees in Jacksonville on Wednesday."We are all just beyond devastated," Amber Rollins, director of the national nonprofit KidsAndCars.org, told ABC News on Wednesday."We have to do more," Rollins said."This cannot continue to happen week after week, year after year when the solution is right at our fingertips.
Hot car deaths reached a record level last year with at least 52 children killed, according to KidsAndCars.org.ABC News' Ben Stein contributed to this report.
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