Mom charged with felony after baby dies in hot car
One-year-old Giselle Gomez was so overheated after being left in a car that her face and body became covered with yellow heat blisters. The child died on Wednesday, and now her mother, Jennifer Gomez, has been jailed and charged with felony child endangerment.
Jennifer Gomez, 22, had left Giselle and her two-year-old sister in the car while she visited at relative at an insurance agency in Belleville, Mo. The kids had been sleeping, and the car’s engine was left running, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
The older child might have accidently turned on the heater, but later managed to leave the car and was not injured, detectives told the newspaper. Giselle wasn’t so lucky — she was strapped into a car seat — and was trapped inside the hot vehicle for at least an hour. The outside temperature at the time was 89 degrees.
Perhaps the older kid got too cold with the AC on & turned on the heat. Still pretty sad.
Thank you Willis for thinking about this. You are absolutely on the target. When Jennifer went in to pay a bill. both kids were asleep in car seats. The toddler (who knew how to release the car seat woke up and was cold, and put the heat on. Then she got bored and went to stand by her mother. She lost track of time and when she went back out she found Giselle dead. She had the car in view the hole time she was inside.
Thank you again for thinking. I have discovered people would rather think she did it than accept the fact that it was an accident.
God bless you,
ChaplainJudi