Mom arrested for leaving baby in hot car
The 11-month-old boy was left in a hot car in a supermarket parking lot as temperatures reached 100 degrees on Saturday, police said. An employee at the HEB supermarket in Killeen, Tex., spotted the child and called 911. Firefighters broke open a car window to rescue the baby, who looked dazed from the heat, KXXV TV News reported.
The child had been left in the car for at least 17 minutes, authorities said. The mother, Sarah Lowelle Traylor, was arrested and charged with child abandonment.
Senior firefighter Robert Arrendo told KXXV that young children are more at risk to hyperthermia because they “have a smaller amount of fluid that their body can hold, so them sweating just like we would would cause them going into a type of shock.”
