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A man was arrested and charged with criminal negligence after his little daughter died in a hot car, according to police reports in Israel.
Police said that a 9-month-old girl died after being left in a car parked on Arieh Ben-Eliezer Street in Ramat Gan for several hours Monday.
"Our paramedics found a baby, 9-months-old, in the back seat, lying unconscious, with no pulse, and the child was not breathing," Magen David Adom spokesperson Zaki Heller said. She was rushed to a hospital where doctors pronounced her dead after several attempts to revive her failed.
An initial police investigation said the father forgot his young daughter in the car after dropping off his other children to school, but forgot to take the baby to the day care center.
When the mother went to the car, hours after the father had parked it outside the home, she found the child in serious condition.
It was not the first time that a child died after being left inside a hot car in Israel. As we reported earlier, a man was arrested, charged and convicted after a 3-year-old girl died in his hot car in Netanya, Israel, according to court proceedings in Netanya, Israel.
Now, the Netanya Magistrate’s Court sentenced the man to a year in prison. The man was identified by police as Ivan Aolos. The man was accused of forgetting the girl, Talia Dashkov, in his hot car, causing her death. Aolos was convicted of causing death by negligence and was ordered to pay the toddler's parents 20 thousand shekels in compensation for mental anguish.
The tragedy occurred on one hot August day several years ago, when Aolos, along with an assistant kindergarten teacher in Netanya, began taking the children out of the car and escorted them to the door of the school. The children all left the vehicle, but Dashkov was left behind. Aolos and the assistant did not notice the child was missing. According to the indictment, the two did not search the seats to make sure that all the children left the vehicle.
Later, Aolos parked his car near his home exposed to the sun. "The temperature inside the closed vehicle rose to 90 degrees Celsius," the indictment said. "As a result, the child suffered a heat stroke and died during the day," the document also said.
“This is a terrible tragedy. Drivers should learn from this story to always check vehicles after dropping off children to make sure that no child was left behind. Leaving a child alone in a car is extremely dangerous and deadly,” Leo Chapman, 51, from Netanyah, Israel told YourJewishNews.com after learning about the child’s death.
The court also banned the defendant from having a driver’s license for 10 years.
