A 9 -year -old girl lost her life on Tuesday after being intentionally left in a car under the Texas sun by her mother, in full of her regular quarter.
“There is no excuse to leave a child or an animal unattended [dans un véhicule]. This is only one more tragic reminder which could unfortunately have been avoided, and this child will not recover from this situation, “deplored the sheriff of Harris County on Tuesday, Ed Gonzalez, at a press conference reported by” ABC News “.
At the start of the afternoon around 2:06 p.m., local police were called upon to go to the parking lot of a Galena Park manufacturing plant, where the 9-year-old had just been found unconscious in a white Toyota Camry, noted the American media.
According to preliminary information from the investigation, the little girl spent the complete morning in the vehicle in the sun after being left there intentionally by her mother around 6 am that morning, when she started her “regular” work quarter, said sheriff.
“The mother knew that she had left her in the vehicle with water and a partially lowered window, then she went to work for her usual quarter. […] I don’t know if someone checked the child’s condition during the day, “he continued journalists.
It was not until the end of her working day around 2 p.m. that the girl was found inanimate by her mother, who would have immediately contacted first aid. The girl’s death would have been noted after transporting a hospital center.
That day, Mercury would have climbed up to nearly 34 degrees Celsius in the Houston region, according to information from the national meteorological service reported by “ABC News”.
In parallel, his mother would have made the handcuffs pass, but it is not yet clear if accusations will be deposited at him while the police tried to shed light on the circumstances surrounding the death.
Because if there is nothing that can justify leaving an unattended child in these circumstances, nothing would show, at this stage, that the mother “thought it could happen,” he said.
“Maybe she was struggling to join both ends, support her needs and work. But the risk of death or injury [est trop grand]. Other arrangements must be made. It is not worth putting a child in danger like that, for any reason, “hammered the sheriff, according to” ABC News “.
In the middle of a high heat, it was the third death in this way in the space of 4 days, according to the American media, and the 13the across the country since the start of the year.
