A Virginia caregiver was arrested on Tuesday after leaving an 11-month-old baby and dog in a hot car with a heat index of 100+ degrees for roughly six hours.
Britta Eberle recalled the moment she forget a child in a car — a day that is forever etched in her memory.
While hot car deaths usually increase in the summer months, experts warn parents that they can happen at temperatures that may be lower than people expect.
Just over six years ago, dad Justin Ross Harris had loaded his son into his SUV and was supposed to drop him off at daycare before heading to work. Harris’s son was just 22 months old at the time.
An 8-month-old died in a hot car after her father was arrested in Georgia.
Recent reports are revealing the identities of the two twin boys who were discovered in a hot car outside of a South Carolina daycare.
Richland County, South Carolina police are currently in the beginning stages of an investigation after two twin infants were found dead inside of a hot car.
A woman has been accused of intentionally leaving her 6-month-old son in a hot car to die in Tennessee over a year ago, and is now facing multiple charges.
“I struggle with saying that I killed my son…”
He said the air conditioner was on and that “the girl was OK.”
“I blanked out. My babies are dead. I killed my babies.”
“We have just been informed that there is evidence showing that this was nothing but a tragic accident. I am not sure it makes it any easier because even though you want to place blame there is no one to blame.”
An unnamed 4-year-old has become the first hot car death on record for 2020.
