05-11-2017, 03:31 PM
West Virginia
How did grams forget about one child for 7 hours while she watched his sibling all day long?
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^ 67-year-old Carolyn Davis is charged with child neglect resulting in death following the April 5 death of her great-grandson in Mason County, West Virginia.
Authorities say Davis dropped the child's mother off at work and then went back to her home on Lighthouse Lane with her great-grandson and his four-year-old sibling.
Davis got the 4-year-old out of the car, but left her great-grandson still inside and strapped into his car seat, police say. The 19-month-old was left in the car with all of the windows rolled up from 7:30am to around 2:30pm.
Temperatures ranged from 120 to 140 degrees inside of the vehicle as it was around 81 degrees outside that day, police say. Davis returned to the car with the 4-year-old to go pick up their mother from work with the boy still strapped in the car seat.
The mother immediately noticed her son was unresponsive and when she picked him up he was stiff. Authorities say they believe Davis knew the child was dead, but that she didn't want to be the person who called 911 to report it.
Davis's house was reportedly a pig sty, but authorities say there was nothing to indicate she wasn't a capable caregiver and she had watched both children before. They reportedly don't believe that she intentionally left the 19-month-old in the car.
Story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...t-car.html
How did grams forget about one child for 7 hours while she watched his sibling all day long?
^ 67-year-old Carolyn Davis is charged with child neglect resulting in death following the April 5 death of her great-grandson in Mason County, West Virginia.
Authorities say Davis dropped the child's mother off at work and then went back to her home on Lighthouse Lane with her great-grandson and his four-year-old sibling.
Davis got the 4-year-old out of the car, but left her great-grandson still inside and strapped into his car seat, police say. The 19-month-old was left in the car with all of the windows rolled up from 7:30am to around 2:30pm.
Temperatures ranged from 120 to 140 degrees inside of the vehicle as it was around 81 degrees outside that day, police say. Davis returned to the car with the 4-year-old to go pick up their mother from work with the boy still strapped in the car seat.
The mother immediately noticed her son was unresponsive and when she picked him up he was stiff. Authorities say they believe Davis knew the child was dead, but that she didn't want to be the person who called 911 to report it.
Davis's house was reportedly a pig sty, but authorities say there was nothing to indicate she wasn't a capable caregiver and she had watched both children before. They reportedly don't believe that she intentionally left the 19-month-old in the car.
Story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...t-car.html