How Could You? Hall of Shame-12-Month-old foster son case-Child Death UPDATED
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From Pineville, North Carolina, “a 12-month-old boy died Thursday after his foster mother left him in a hot car for hours while she was at work, police said.
The Department of Social Services is investigating the case.
Pineville police said the boy was found around 5 p.m. inside a car at the McMullen Creek Shopping Center off Pineville Matthews Road.
According to officers, the boy’s foster mother works at the shopping center and didn’t realize she left him in the car until she got off work.
Police said after she found her son in the vehicle, she frantically called 911 for help.
When officers got there, they said they tried to save the boy and rushed him to Atrium Pineville, but it was too late.
“I know the baby was worked on all the way up to the hospital,” police told Channel 9.
Temperatures on Thursday climbed into the mid-80s.
It’s still unclear exactly how long the baby was in the car, but investigators said it was for “a prolonged period.”
Detectives are talking to family members and checking surveillance video at the shopping center.
Pineville police said no criminal charges have been filed against the woman at this point, and she is being cooperative with the investigation.
Advocates for children are warning other parents to learn from the tragedy.
“Parents say ‘How would you forget a child? This would never happen,.’ so, they don’t create a system to protect from it, because they don’t think that it would ever happen to them,” Janice Williams with Safe Kids Charmeck said.
DSS said it usually investigates cases like this to determine if there was a pattern of neglect and if the woman’s other foster children should be removed from the home.
Channel 9 learned 37 children have died in hot cars this year nationwide, two in North Carolina.”
12-month-old boy who died in hot car was in foster care, police say
[WSOCTV 8/30/19]
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Update: “A foster mother has been charged with the death of a toddler who died after being left in a hot car at a mall last week.
Dawn Aberson-Vanden Broecke, 42, was charged on Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter.
On August 29, she left the baby boy, who has not been named, in the parking lot outside Lowes at a shopping center in Pineville, North Carolina.
Temperatures soared into the 80s and the boy died as a result.
According to police, Broecke works inside the store.
It is unclear how long the boy was left inside the vehicle but she called 911 at 5pm.
When a police dispatch called for medical help, they said the mother had told them the baby had been in the car ‘all day’.
Paramedics tried to revive him but he was pronounced dead in the hospital.
A warrant for Broecke’s arrest was issued but she has not yet turned herself in.
It is unclear whether she had any other children in her care. ”
Foster mother is charged over death of one-year-old boy who was left in hot car at shopping mall while she worked inside
[Daily Mail 9/4/19 by Jennifer Smith]
Update 2:“A warrant released Thursday reveals new details about a tragic event in Pineville when who police say a foster mother left a 1-year-old boy in a hot car at a shopping center, ultimately leading to the child’s death.
Dawn Aberson-Vanden Broecke, 42, is charged with involuntary manslaughter. Police said Tuesday that a warrant was obtained for Broecke’s arrest and she was expected to turn herself in – which she did on Wednesday afternoon.
The incident happened less than a week earlier on Thursday, Aug. 29. Officers responded to a 911 call regarding the unresponsive 12-month-old inside a car at the Lowe’s parking lot on McMullen Creek Parkway.
Police say life-saving measures were taken and the baby boy was taken to the hospital by Medic, but was pronounced dead a short time later. On Tuesday, officials said the official cause of death was determined to be hyperthermia due to environmental exposure.
The warrant states that Broecke works at a nearby office and was leaving work to pick up the child at a day care when she realized she had left him in the car since that morning. Broecke then pulled into the Lowe’s parking lot to check on the boy.
When police arrived, firefighters and Medic were already attempting to perform life-saving measures on the boy. The warrant states that when officers approached Broecke and began to question her, “she was standing there and appeared emotionless (she was standing there calm, did not appear upset or otherwise in distress.”
She told officers when she checked on the boy, she “knew that he looked bad, possibly deceased.””
[WBTV 9/5/19]
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