A Texas mother has been arrested after police alleged her 22-month-old child died when left the infant in a hot car in Corpus Christi.

A Texas mother was taken into custody Tuesday after police alleged her 22-month-old child died when she left the infant in a car outside a Corpus Christi school on one of the hottest days of the year.

The mother, 33-year-old Hilda Ann Adame, was jailed on charges of causing serious bodily injury to a child and child endangerment/abandonment with imminent bodily injury, according to a Corpus Christi Police Department incident report.

It was not clear how long the infant had been in the car before the baby was found unresponsive, according to the incident report.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    514·
    3 months ago

    I don’t get how this keeps happening. Kids, dogs, adults, nobody should be left in a hot car. It’s not a freakin’ mystery, it happens all the time!

      • jordanlund@lemmy.world
        111·
        3 months ago

        Best solution I heard to this is to take something you’ll need… wallet, keys, phone, and stick it in the car seat with the baby.

        No forgetting.

        • kandoh@reddthat.com
          9·
          3 months ago

          There should be a shelf on the hood of the car where you can put the baby carrier so you never take your eyes off the baby

        • BruceTwarzen
          21·
          3 months ago

          Isn’t the baby already the thing you’re not supposed to forget? I don’t have children but if i have my dog in my car, my one and only thought is that: “what if i have to park my car somewhere and leave my dog inside?”