Toddler left in hot car dies

The case is similar to that of t he death of 18-month-old Thomas Naramore, also apparently left accidentally in his father’s care on a hot day in July in Hot Springs.

The infant was left in the vehicle by his grandparents and his aunt after a church service yesterday afternoon.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that Georgia ranks seventh in the nation for the number of children dying from heatstroke in vehicles in the past two decades.

The boy’s mother, who works at night, was asleep.

It was only when the boy’s mother awoke and asked where her son was “that the grandparents realized that the child wasn’t (inside)”, Wilson said. She brings the child back in the house.

All signs indicate the boy’s death are accidental, “but we are keeping an open mind”, Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson told CNN. “We believe at this point that each adult may have thought the other adult had responsibility to get that child out and when they got inside they just did not confirm that, did not communicate that to each other”.

The sheriff’s office has not received an autopsy report but Sheriff Wilson says the baby likely died of heat stroke.

An 11-month-old boy died after he was left in a hot auto in Georgia for more than 2 hours Saturday when his family returned home from church.

Despite attempts by the mother and then first responders to revive the child with Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), he was pronounced dead at the hospital. Justin Ross Harris has pleaded not guilty to felony murder charges in the death of 22-month-old Cooper Harris.