A mother’s anguish and regret was on full display after an Oklahoma police officer told her she had left her one-year-old daughter inside a hot auto for over an hour. The couple found an unlocked door and got the child out, but her body temperature had already risen to over 100 degrees.
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Paramedics transported the child, a female, to St. Johns Owasso where she was treated for an extreme heat-related condition.
A police report says the child was left alone for about 45 minutes in the minivan which reached internal temperatures of 120 to 138 degrees. As a mother herself the she said she doesn’t believe someone forgets their child in a vehicle.
Secondi was arrested for child abuse and booked into the Tulsa County Jail on $50,000 bond.
The baby was brought to St. John Medical Center in Owasso for treatment, and was released into the custody of her father.
“Oh my God! She’s dead!” yells Secondi.
“It’s not like she just, you know, ‘Oh, I just ran inside really quick”. “Oh, my God! My husband’s going to kill me”.
Lansdowne said she was leaving Walmart with her boyfriend Bizzell; in the distance she heard a noise.
Secondi was detained and expected to be charged with child neglect. “Oh, my God!” Secondi is seen saying. “There was more people with her. There was no reason why the baby should have been left in the vehicle”.
“If the baby had been unconscious or asleep, we would have had no idea”, said Jedidiah Bizzell, who found the child.
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When police arrived on scene, they made contact with the child’s mother, Hanna Secondi, as she was walking out of the store.
