Baby left in hot car dies


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my god. this is horrible.

I once was in a supermarket, waitrose (UK), came out to see a baby, must of been under 1 year old, in the back seat on a bmw convertable. ALONE!

Parents were no where to be seen. makes me sick. why have a kid if you abuse it

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July 22, 2005

Kayli was Gabriel Saavedra's only child, the beautiful girl he talked about constantly at work. On Saturday, she would have been 5 months old.

Every day, he picked up or dropped off the baby at the Storybook Nursery School in Orlando, a worker said.

But when Saavedra, 25, arrived Thursday evening, workers at the day-care center on West Oak Ridge Road told the Orlando man that his daughter had never arrived that morning.

Saavedra rushed back to his car and found Kayli strapped in her infant seat. Emergency workers declared her dead at the scene.

It is unclear who strapped the baby in the back seat or who was supposed to take her to the day-care center. Investigators do not know how long Kayli was in the hot sedan, but she could have been there for hours, officials said.

Orange County deputy sheriffs are investigating why Kayli was left inside the car. Medical examiners have yet to determine what caused the infant's death.

Saavedra's friend Bruce Pottingill talked to Saavedra minutes after the discovery of the body and arrived at the nursery school soon afterward. As Pottingill stood, shaking from nerves in the weeds outside the nursery school, he said the father was so distraught he could barely speak.

"He was hysterical," said Pottingill, 35, who works with Saavedra at his job painting cars. "He loved that baby. He talked about her every day, what she learned, what they did together."

When Saavedra called, Pottingill's mind went blank. He didn't know how to console his friend.

"I don't know what you can say," Pottingill said.

Another friend said Saavedra was "heartbroken" at the loss of his daughter. "That was his life. He wouldn't even go down the block without the kid," said Mike Linderman, 23.

Investigators do not know who was supposed to drop off the baby at the day-care center Thursday morning, said Lt. Al Rollins, a sheriff's spokesman.

Saavedra and girlfriend Erica Baker, the infant's mother, shared the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera that Saavedra used to pick up his daughter Thursday, Pottingill said. They didn't have money for another one, he said.

Rollins did not release Baker's age. But Linderman said Baker also was distraught over the loss. "She's heartbroken; she's crying," he said.

Saavedra worked hard for what money he had, the co-worker said, and showed up every day at work. He often worked overtime to pay the bills. On Thursday, Saavedra was tired and left work about 5 p.m., Pottingill said.

Soon after, about 5:20 p.m., Saavedra rushed out of the day-care center and found Kayli, Rollins said. He punched out the car window in frustration, injuring his hands.

Day-care workers called 911 and attempted cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Paramedics tried to revive her as well.

Nursery-school workers who gathered at the scene after the incident said it shocked them. Kayli was a new arrival at the center, said Lisa Perez, 15, who regularly dropped by to help her mother, Sonia, 43, play with the babies. Saavedra seemed to care about his daughter, she said.

"I always saw her dad drop her off," Lisa said.

During the summer, the interior of a car can get so hot that it could kill a person in minutes, said Lt. Frank Raike, spokesman for Orange County Fire-Rescue.

"I would not leave a child in a car for any period of time," he said.

In 90-degree weather, the inside temperature of a vehicle can reach 125 degrees in less than 20 minutes. A small child's body temperature can increase three to five times faster than an adult's, according to experts.

In 2002, 25 deaths were blamed on heat inside a vehicle's passenger compartment, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. All of the 25 were children.

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Its a sad story, but I don't get it - the man drops off his infant at the day care center, then goes to work. The baby never arrived at the center, so basically what I'm reading is that he forgot to drop the baby off... Don't get it :unsure:

RIP

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It's not the first story of a baby dying in a hot car that I hear... many people do that and I can't understand why they can't f***ing pay attention to what they're doing. You can't leave ANYONE in a car during summer. I remember 2 years ago, I was in a hot car for like 20 minutes and it wasn't fun x_x

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Sad, idiots should not have children.

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It's very easy to insult the parents, yes they made a mistake but they are mourning more than anyone else over the accident.

They are not idiots, they may be careless but who are you to say whether they are idiots or not? Is it your child? Multitasking is a difficult thing to do and when you concentrate on the road you tend to forget.

However I find it amazing that the baby was left in the car for hours and the guy talked about her constantly at work. Him as a loving parent SHOULD NOT forget their only daughter. Not in such a dangerous place (After a while).

I feel for the parents... I don't even want to begin to know how hard a blow this must be on them. It's hard enough bringing up a child to this world - What's more losing a child to carelessness...

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Very sad news :( Its very easy to blame the parents but I'm not sure exactly why she was left in the car, this reminds me of a CSI episode where a young child died after apparently being left in a hot car.

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my god. this is horrible.

I once was in a supermarket, waitrose (UK), came out to see a baby, must of been under 1 year old, in the back seat on a bmw convertable. ALONE!

Parents were no where to be seen. makes me sick. why have a kid if you abuse it

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I think you should have called cops.

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RIP to that kid.

Those who saying that it reminds them of a CSI episode, I thought the exact same thing when I saw this thread. The story line was different in CSI though, the parents wanted the kid dead.

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As a parent, I have forgotten about my son in the back seat before. I never left the car, but forgot to drop him off one morning and got 1/2 way to work before I realized it. You get used to them making noise and the one day they don't make a peep, you can forget they are there.

This happens once or twice a month to people at the office, where someone forgets they have a child in the car and starts off to work. I feel real bad for this father, because it a "worst nightmare" situation.

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it sucks taht **** happenes over and over each yr :/.... ppl dont learn that the got dam car gets hot in the summer... i say they should be sent to jail. how hard can it be to just bring the baby in gesssh

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I was in the parking lot at a local mall 3 yrs ago and the temp hit 42c with the humidex.

I was walking by a car and notice a golden lab in the back seat of a car and it looked near dead with foam coming fom its mouth. Another passerby stopped and we tapped on teh windows and the dog barely could move his eyes to lookat us.

We dialed 911 on the cell phone and reported the situation and told the distapcher we where taking out the window of the car. WE broke the window using a screw driver from the trunk of my car. They sent a officer to the scene and the owner was located in the tavern and he was charege with cruelity to animals. Teh dog was taken to the vet and after a week in teh hospital recovered but suffered brain damage due to the heat. The vet adopted him as the owner would not pick up the dog.

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