Toddler drenched in sweat rescued from hot minivan – officer confronts mom in

A NJ police officer saved a little girl from her mother’s minivan, parked in a Costco parking lot yesterday afternoon.

Desperate moments were caught on cellphone and then posted to Facebook and viewed more than two million times since Thursday. The scared little girl was “sweating profusely” and crying in the vehicle seat, as reported by WPIX. Her mother was inside a Hackensack Costco shopping and decided to leave her two-year-old daughter behind. Bergen County Sheriff’s Officer Rich Carrion arrived and smashed in a window with his baton.

An intense rescue on a hot summer day has a mother in hot water. And when they took her out, the child was drenched in sweat.

Police ran the vehicle’s license plates in an attempt to find her parents. “Is this your kid?”, the officers said. The cop angrily told her, “No sorry, she could have died”.

Rodriguez, the witness, told WABC the woman left all of the car’s windows cracked open – making him think she wasn’t just absent-minded. One passer-by, Rafael Rodriguez, who attempted to free the girl, said: “I was trying to force my way into the window but I couldn’t get my arm through”.

The two-year-old girl sweating in this unbearable heat was sent to the hospital and is now in the custody of her father.

The mother, Chaeyoung, was arrested and charged with child endangerment. “She knew what she was doing when she did it, and this time she got caught”.