By then the temperatures had soared to more than 90F, according to CNN.
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The grandparents had been babysitting for the boy’s mother, a nurse, who was asleep after working all night, CNN reported.
The Department of Meteorology & Climate Science at San Jose State University in California said the toddler was the 19th child to die in the United States in 2015 because of being left inside a hot vehicle.
The child’s mother had been home sleeping.
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. “There was a lack of communication within the three adults”.
“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”, Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said.
The case is being investigated by the Walker County Sheriff’s Office and the Lookout… The family called an ambulance but the boy was pronounced dead at the hospital. An autopsy will performed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s medical examiner in Atlanta. Wilson said it hits close to home, because he has a 2-year-old granddaughter.
The infant was left in the vehicle by his grandparents and his aunt after a church service yesterday afternoon.
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An average of 38 children die in the US each year after parents leave their children trapped inside a hot auto, according to KidsAndCars.org, an organization that tracks these incidents across the country.
