Shock in Japan: Dad forgot his baby in the car and died of the heat

A small Two-year-old girl dies after father left her in car with no air conditioning for nine hours. The events took place in Osaka, Japan, when a man left his home around 8am on November 12 with his three children. According to his testimony, the subject had planned to take the minors to school, but forgot to leave his youngest daughter in kindergarten.

Authorities said the man had left two of his children in different schools, but he forgot to drop his granddaughter off at kindergarten and drove to work with the little girl in the back seat. Upon arriving at her office, subject closed the windows and parked the car in the sun, not realizing that the girl was still in the car.

When she left work and went to the little girl’s kindergarten, the teachers at the institute informed her that her daughter never made it to school, so she ran to check the car and found her daughter’s body unconscious. After realizing his mistake, the man called an ambulance and his daughter was taken to the emergency room at a hospital of the region, however did not survive.

Doctors at the hospital said the minor died of heat stroke after spending nine hours locked in the car without ventilation. air conditioning. However, authorities will conduct an autopsy to determine the official cause of her death and determine the legal status of the man who abandoned her in the vehicle.

They warn of the risk of leaving children in a car in the sun

Pediatric specialists have launched an alert so that Parents, don’t forget your children in cars.Indeed, cars heat up quickly if they are in the sun, even if the temperatures are not very high. In summer, a child left in a car parked in the sun without ventilation can reach a body temperature of 42 or 43 degrees and die within 30 to 60 minutes.

Likewise, they comment that the bodily thermoregulation mechanism of children under five is less efficient than that of adults, so they have a greater risk of suffering heat stroke in a short period of time, which which would also be more serious than in the case of an adult and can even cause death in a short time.

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