10-month-old girl dies after being left inside hot car in Kansas

A 10-month-old Kansas girl died after being strapped for more than two hours inside a sweltering car, and police arrested a foster parent who said he’d forgotten about her until something on TV jogged his memory, an official said Friday.

The 29-year-old man was booked on suspicion of aggravated endangerment but has not been charged, said Lt. Todd Ojile of the Wichita Police Department. The case will be presented this week to prosecutors.

The girl’s distraught maternal grandmother, Cindy Poe of Topeka, Kansas, went to police headquarters Friday demanding to see her granddaughter’s body and to find out where her other two grandchildren had been taken.

According to the nonprofit child safety group KidsAndCars.org, 18 children have died in hot cars this year in the United States, including a Georgia boy whose father is charged with murder on suspicion of intentionally leaving the 22-month-old in a hot car last month as he went to work.

The Kansas City, Missouri-based group said 10 children have died in hot cars in Kansas since 2000.

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One Response to “10-month-old girl dies after being left inside hot car in Kansas”

  1. Unknown's avatar

    thats too bad, parents should be very careful with their kids naaaa

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