When she came to pick up the 18-month-old boy from the nursery in the afternoon, surprised caregivers told her that the child was not in the nursery at all that day. Only then did the woman notice that her son remained in the back seat of the car. He was already dead.
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The prosecutor’s office is investigating the case as an unintentional manslaughter, with up to five years in prison. Due to her health condition, the investigators have not yet been able to hear the mother, her whole family is in the care of a psychologist.
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Police and rescuers repeatedly warn of the dangers to people or animals locked in a car in the heat of the sun.
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The temperature in a vehicle parked in the sun can reach up to 90 degrees Celsius. In such conditions, the child’s body overheats two to five times faster than the adult’s body.
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