Two children have died in hat cars in coastal Texas this week.
A 9-month-old girl was found dead in a car in Beeville on Wednesday, KIII reported, a day after a 22-month-old baby was found dead in a car in Corpus Christi.
Beeville Police said they were called for an unresponsive child on Wednesday and found a grandmother holding the baby. The grandmother said she forgot the infant was in the car when she arrived at work at 8:30 a.m. and found the girl when she returned at 4 p.m.
“It’s an unfortunate scene in the first responder community, especially this time of year with the heat,” Beeville Police Assistant Chief Richard Cantu Jr. said.
Cantu said Texas Rangers were assisting with a criminal investigation and were awaiting results of an autopsy.
A day before, a Corpus Christi mother was charged with serious bodily injury to a child and child endangerment/abandonment with imminent bodily injury after her 22-month-old child was found dead in her car at early Tuesday afternoon.
Hilda Adame told detectives she had meant to drop the child off at daycare before heading to her job as a third-party worker at Tom Browne Middle School at 8 a.m., but the toddler was sleeping in the back seat and she forgot. When she returned to her car at 1 p.m., she called 911.
The two cases bring the total number of children who have died of vehicular heat stroke in 2024 to 27, according to No Heat Stroke. In 2023, 29 children died in hot cars.
