I’d like to think that the incidents remind us all that if we are ever in the parking lot of a grocery store, mall, or whenever and see a child alone in a parked auto, we immediately alert the store or authorities.
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Asa North’s neighbors rushed outside to help, placing the infants in a kiddie pool half-filled with water. The two girls, Ariel and Alaynah North, were unresponsive when they arrived.
The girls were not moving.
“They noticed him putting them in the swimming pool”.
GBI spokesman Scott Dutton said results will be shared with the local coroner and others investigating the Thursday deaths of the 15-month-old twin girls. Autopsies were to be conducted Friday morning. Around this time in 2015, 12 children had died inside hot vehicles, said Fennell in an email Thursday night. Health experts say there is never a safe length of time to leave a child or animal unattended in a hot auto.
When a child’s internal temperature is 104 degrees, their organs start shutting down. A child’s body heats up three to five times faster than an adult’s, according to the Seattle Children’s Hospital.
The AJC is reporting that both children were pronounced dead after being found at 6:50 p.m. The neighbors also used ice packs in an attempt to get their temperatures down.
The twins’ mother was reportedly not home when the tragedy occurred. Authorities arrived, speeding the girls to Tanner Medical Center.
It was too late.
At the time of the twin’s deaths, the girl’s mother had gone to Atlanta to visit her sister, who’d been injured in a vehicle accident.
Temperatures inside a auto can become deadly very quickly, with 80 percent of the increase happening in the first 10 minutes, her group warns on its website.
Asa North was denied bond on Friday. “They were incredible”, Breal Ellis, the girls’ mother told Fox 5, while fighting back tears.
“The little girls, oh (I) love them”.
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Regina Cleveland, a friend of the North family, said that whatever happens to North, he has already paid a steep price. “But all we know to do right now is pray”.
