Police have confirmed that two children have died after being left in their auto seats outside a Carroll County duplex.
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Federal statistics show that more than 550 children nationwide have died since 1998 from being left in hot cars.
A Carrollton, Georgia father is behind bars this morning after his two 15-month-old twins died as a result of being locked in a hot vehicle in sweltering heat.
The girls had just turned 16-months-old the day they died. He and his neighbors tried to revive them with water and ice packs, but they were too far gone.
The twins were transported to Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton where they were both pronounced dead.
The twins’ mother, Breal Ellis, was at an Atlanta hospital Thursday visiting with her sister, who was injured in a vehicle accident and was having surgery.
Temperatures in Carrollton breached 90 degrees the afternoon of Asa North’s daughter’s deaths. The toddlers were rushed to a local hospital but tragically, neither of them survived.
On Friday, North was arrested and charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of reckless conduct because the police said he had been drinking before leaving them in their auto seats in the 90 plus degree temperatures, the New York Daily News reports. North has been jailed on charges of involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct.
Brittany N. Reeder didn’t want to wake her sleeping daughter when the family arrived at a local pizzeria, so she chose to leave the baby in the auto.
Someone discovered the twins unresponsive in the back seat of an SUV parked in front of a residential building in Carrollton on Thursday night, said police.
“No one in the family, mothers, grandmothers, think he did this intentionally”, said Captain Dobbs, who said Asa North was “visibly shaken” but was cooperative with police.
The grey auto (left) in which the children were left in searing summer heat.
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