A three-year-old boy has died after being left inside the back seat of his step-mum’s car for more than 10 hours in sweltering 31C heat. Little Miguel Antunes Versari was found dead inside a red Chrysler in Videira, Brazil, on April 25.
His step-mum had reportedly forgotten to drop him off at nursery after he had nodded off in the back seat. She was supposed to leave him at the nursery at 7 am, but after dropping off her wife, Miguel’s mum, who works as a nurse, she drove home without realising he was still in the car, reported the Mirror.
It wasn’t until much later, when she was preparing to collect him from the nursery, that she made the devastating discovery. Temperatures outside that day hit 31C, but inside a locked car, the heat would have soared to more than 57C – hotter than a warming oven.
Police have opened a suspicious death investigation and have been questioning Miguel’s stepmother about what happened.
A police spokesperson said the day after Miguel’s death: “Yesterday, she said that the child had flu-like symptoms and was medicated with ibuprofen. So he was not as active as usual and was sleeping in the back seat of the vehicle. After leaving her partner at work, she did not realise that the child was sleeping.”
Police are now waiting for autopsy results to confirm the cause of death and are also looking at CCTV footage from around the family home to piece together what happened.
In another heartbreaking case, a four-month-old baby died earlier this month after his dad forgot him in a car in New Jersey, USA.
Moshe Ehrlich, 35, had dropped three of his children at school and was supposed to take the baby to the babysitter. But after realising he’d forgotten the baby’s milk, he went home to collect it, picked up some other things, and then headed straight to his yeshiva – a Jewish religious school – forgetting the baby was still strapped into the back seat.
He parked outside the school at around 11 am and went in for classes. It wasn’t until 1.30 pm that someone at the school told him he had a family emergency call. That call came after the babysitter, Esther Kitay, had texted Moshe’s wife, Faiga, worried because the baby hadn’t arrived.
When Moshe rushed back to the car, it was too late. The baby was rushed to Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus but was sadly pronounced dead.
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