A Queensland woman who allegedly left a toddler unattended and locked in a car in searing heat has been charged, after police had to break into the vehicle. 7NEWS
7NEWS understands the boy’s father told police he forgot his son was in the car when he parked it and returned to the family home nearby. It is understood he later smashed the back window of the car in a desperate attempt to get to his son.
He then tried to revive him until paramedics arrived, but the boy could not be saved and died at the scene. The father was taken to Campbelltown Police Station for questioning and released without charge on Friday. A crime scene was established on Thursday after a child was found dead in a car in Glenfield, in Sydney’s southwestChristine Erskine, from Kidsafe NSW, told Sunrise on Friday there is never a “safe way to leave anybody in a car”.
“A car can heat up very quickly and, say the outside temperature is 30C ... within 8-15 minutes it can be 60C to 70C within that car, so that is very quick, very rapid and gets very high,” she said.“There were about 5000 near misses where people unintentionally leave their children in the car, so it does happen, and it’s probably happened to many of us over the years,” she added.
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