The risk from hot cars could stay particularly high over the next several days, with forecasters projecting temperatures between 96 and 100 through Sunday, then dropping to the low 90s for a few days. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said they accidentally left the toddler in her car seat while they removed their two other children and unloaded the vehicle after coming home from a Fourth of July celebration, according to The Associated Press. The parents also were charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child. The most recent one in Florida before this was a 1-year-old girl left in a car overnight in Polk County on July 5, according to the state Department of Children and Families. The group, which has pushed for national rules to equip cars with technology to help prevent hot-car deaths, logged 14 deaths nationally this year. The child, whose name hasn’t been released, was at least the sixth this year to die in Florida from being trapped in a hot vehicle, according to a tally maintained by Kids and Car Safety. Please be mindful of this when trying to understand the tragedy that took place in our small town.” Children are dying in hot cars “In the blink of an eye, our world can be turned upside down. “Each of us are given the gift of life every morning…,” Rhoden wrote.
“As the sheriff of a small community, posting the details of this tragedy is very hard for me,” Sheriff Scotty Rhoden wrote in a message to the county with about 29,000 residents on Jacksonville’s western border. Wednesday’s high temperature was 98 degrees in Jacksonville, the National Weather Service reported. The arrest report said Jewell told investigators she had forgotten the girl was still strapped into the vehicle, where the report said the temperature had risen to 133 degrees.Ģ022 tragedy: Death of Jacksonville child left in hot car becomes fourth case in Florida this yearĭaycare hazard: Daycare co-owner arrested in death of 4-month-old left in van When the baby’s mother arrived at 1 p.m., Jewell realized the infant was still in the vehicle and the baby was rushed to Fraser Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead. and headed to another home where she was watching three other children, an arrest report said. Jewell had picked up the baby from a home in north Macclenny about 8 a.m. Jewell, was charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, according to information posted Thursday on the Baker County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. “It is beyond heartbreaking," Janette Fennell, founder and president of the nonprofit Kids and Car Safety, said about the death Wednesday of the 10-month-old girl whom police said had been entrusted to a babysitter. The death of a Baker County baby in a sweltering car is reinforcing warnings for more steps to protect small children from being trapped in vehicles during life-threatening heat.
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