The officer’s body camera captured the confrontation with Secondi.
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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.
Even though the windows and doors were closed, they eventually were able to save the sweaty child.
“It is not like, ‘Oh, I just ran inside real quick, I completely forgot, the day was mad, ‘and she was alone”, she said. They say she “began frantically asking if her child was deceased”. She was held in lieu of $50,000 bail, according to KFOR. “There was no reason why the baby should have been left in the vehicle”.
Police body camera footage showed the child’s mother, identified by KFOR as Hannah Secondi, wailing when confronted by the unidentified officer who was part of the Owasso Police Department.
“To my understanding, the condition of the little girl (when admitted to the hospital) was that she had a core temperature of 100.6 degrees, which was bad but surprisingly, not as bad as it could have been, given how long it’s believed that she was left in the vehicle during the heat of the day”, Capt. Townsend said. The child was discovered covered in sweat by Chrysty Lansdowne and her boyfriend Jedidiah Bizzell, and they called 911. “Oh, my God! My husband’s going to kill me”.
“Oh, my god!” the woman can be heard saying.
“Are you the mother?”, an officer asked. Lansdowne, a mother herself, said she can’t comprehend how it happened.
The baby was brought to St. John Medical Center in Owasso for treatment, and was released into the custody of her father.
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“No, she’s not”, the officer replied.
