A community in New York is mourning the loss of a 14-month-old child who died after being left in a hot car, with family members holding a candlelight vigil in the parking lot where she was found, reports say.
The Suffolk County Police Department said the infant was discovered "unattended in a hot car for approximately eight hours" on Monday near the Long Island Railroad station in Smithtown.
"A 54-year-old Greenlawn woman forgot to drop off her 14-month-old granddaughter at day care on July 31 and went to work, leaving the child in a car seat in a back seat," investigators said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Approximately eight hours later, the woman went to pick up the child at the day care, located on Redwood Lane in Smithtown,when she realized she had left the child in her vehicle, a 2018 Jeep Cherokee.
"The child was transported to Saint Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown where she was pronounced dead," the statement added.
Candlelight vigil held in New York train station parking lot following 14-month-old’s hot car death
A candlelight vigil was held in a Long Island Rail Road train station parking lot in Smithtown, New York, after a child's hot car death there earlier this week.
