A six-month-old infant died after being forgotten by his relatives and the driver inside a car during the scorching afternoon hours, becoming a victim of the sun's rays that took his life. They remembered him only after he had passed away, and all attempts by doctors at the hospital to save the baby were unsuccessful. The American police charged the driver, a teenage girl who forgot the child inside the vehicle and returned home to spend her day, with "manslaughter." The driver is reported to be a minor under the age of eighteen.
According to details published by the British newspaper "Metro," the infant died after being left in a hot car for seven hours. The young driver arrived home around 2 PM on the previous Tuesday with the baby in the back seat of the car. During the trip, the child fell asleep, and the young driver forgot him in the car when she exited the vehicle. She remembered the child again at 8 PM, but by then, the baby had already passed away.
The report states that the teenage driver was a neighbor of the baby’s family. The baby's mother sent him with the driver to take him home, where the father was waiting, and the neighbor forgot that the child was in the car until she received a phone call from the father around 8 PM. It was then that the young driver remembered that she had left the baby in the car and hurried with the father to the location, where the baby, named "Travis Carter Jr.," was found deceased in the back seat.
Paramedics announced the baby's death when they arrived at the scene around 9 PM on Tuesday in Cordes Lakes, approximately 60 miles (90 kilometers) north of Phoenix, Arizona. The young driver, who is a minor, was arrested and charged with "manslaughter."
The story began when the mother went to the market with the neighbor, bringing the baby along. After the baby fell asleep, the mother asked the neighbor to return him to his father's house while she went to work. The neighbor arrived home around 2 PM but did not take the baby to the father's nearby house. Instead, she parked the car in an open area under the scorching sun and entered her house, claiming to have forgotten the child in the car, according to the police.
The father called his wife around 8:45 PM to ask when the neighbor would bring the child, prompting the mother to immediately call the neighbor to check what was going on. It was only then that they realized the baby was still in the car. The police stated: "The neighbor ran to the adjacent house, then the father and the neighbor pulled the child from the car and called emergency services 911, attempting to perform CPR."
It is noteworthy that child fatalities in cars due to extreme heat are on the rise in the United States, with 17 reported cases this year alone.
