A Texas mother, on Tuesday, was taken into custody after her 22-month-old child died when she left the infant in a car outside a Corpus Christi school.
The 33-year-old mother, Hilda Ann Adame, according to ABC News, was jailed on charges of causing serious bodily injury to a child and child endangerment/abandonment with imminent bodily injury.
According to a Corpus Christi Police Department incident report, it was not clear how long the infant had been in the car before the baby was found unresponsive.
At least 24 children, ranging from a 10-month-old in Louisiana to an 8-year-old in North Carolina, have died this year across the nation after being left in vehicles during hot weather, according to the nonprofit child advocacy organization Kids and Car Safety.
The latest hot car death, according to police, unfolded around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday outside the Tom Browne Middle School in Corpus Christi as temperatures soared past 100 degrees during a heat advisory issued for the city by the National Weather Service.
The weather service advisory said the heat index, which factors in relative humidity, made it feel like 112 degrees in Corpus Christi on Tuesday.
When officers arrived at the scene in the city’s South Side neighborhood, a school nurse was already performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the infant.
The baby was taken by ambulance to nearby Driscoll Children’s Hospital, where the child was pronounced dead, police said.
