A 5-year-old boy in Texas died after being left in a hot car, with his mother “fully” believing the child was at day care, according to the San Antonio Police Department.
The mother, 22, typically drops her son off at day care at Pinnacle Kids’ Academy in San Antonio and then goes to work, which is “right next door,” police said. But on Wednesday, she went to work at 8 a.m. — “fully” believing that the child was at day care — with the boy left in the back seat of the vehicle, officials said.
When she finished work at approximately 4:30 p.m., the mother drove to the day care to pick up her son, but staff told her she did had not dropped him off, police said.
“That is when she realized he left him in the vehicle,” police said in a statement.
The mother then went back to her vehicle and “noticed he was still in his car seat and unresponsive,” police said.
Paramedics arrived at the scene and “made notification that he died,” police said.
As of Thursday, there have not been any arrests made and the investigation remains active, officials said.
