A five-year-old girl is now in critical condition after she was locked in a car for two hours on Sunday.
Guardian Media understands the child’s mother had left her in the care of a relative to attend a funeral.
The 41-year-old mother told police a female relative had agreed to bring her daughter and other children to the funeral.
She said around 4 pm she saw the relative but she did not see her daughter. When she asked the relative for her daughter, she said she left the child in the vehicle.
The child was found unconscious, covered in vomit and urine.
The mother rushed her daughter to the Siparia District Health Facility where she was treated and transferred to the San Fernando General Hospital. She was moved from the Intensive Care Unit to the Resuscitation Room.
Siparia police are investigating.
A medical report obtained by the police listed the doctor’s findings as severe dehydration secondary to query heat stroke, query aspiration pneumonia and query hypoxic brain injury.
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