A five-year-old girl found in a car parked in the driveway of a home in the Hunter region of New South Wales last week in searing heat has died in hospital
A five-year-old girl found in a car parked in the driveway of a home in the Hunter region of New South Wales last week in searing heat has died in hospital
1 December 2019
The child was placed in an induced coma after being found unresponsive in the vehicle outside a house, in Port Stephens on Tuesday afternoon..
She died this morning.
Temperatures hit 35C in the area that afternoon.
Last weekend, two sisters - aged one and two - died inside a station wagon parked across the front yard of a family home in Logan, south of Brisbane.
Their mother, 27-year-old Kerri-Ann Conley, was charged with two counts of murder and was remanded in custody.
In Auckland during the week a young girl, thought to be aged between five and seven years, was rescued from a car in sweltering heat in Kohimarama, after emergency services smashed a window to release her.
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