Cops probe suspected hot car death of baby girl

Aug 16, 2017 News

Police have questioned the relatives of a baby girl, who died at around 14.30 hrs yesterday, after being left unattended in her father’s car.

The eight-month-old infant, of Greater Georgetown, was found panting for breath in her father’s car, and was subsequently pronounced dead at the Davis Memorial Hospital

Kaieteur News understands that the father, a 33-year-old boat captain and taxi driver, was playing a game of dominoes at a neighbour’s house when his 25-year-old wife, gave him their baby daughter to keep.

About two hours later, the husband’s eight-year-old sister collected the baby “to play with her.”

The sister then placed the baby in the back seat of the father’s car. But according to reports, the eight-year-old “got thirsty”, and went inside the family’s house for some water, leaving the baby in the car with the windows wound up and doors locked, “to prevent her from crawling out.”

But the eight-year-old reportedly forgot about the baby “and went playing in the yard and watching television.”

Eventually, a neighbour came to take the baby for a walk. It was then that the eight-year-old remembered the baby in the car.

On rushing to the vehicle, the child and neighbour found the infant panting for breath and with her eyes partly closed.

An alarm was raised and the child’s father tried unsuccessfully to revive his daughter by placing her under a tap. The parents then rushed the baby to the Davis Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

The body was taken to the Lyken Funeral Parlour. A post mortem is likely today.

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