Toddler dies after being
found inside hot car
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Twenty-month-old Adrian Moreno died Monday after being
found inside a hot car in Katy. |
ABC13
Eyewitness News
(5/17/04 -
Adrian Moreno was found
unconscious inside his parents' car, parked in front of the family's Katy home.
His mother called 911, struggling to explain what happened.
911 Call
Transcript:
Operator: "Katy 911. What's your emergency?"
Mother: "Yes, I had just woke up and I
was looking for my son. I assumed that my husband was in the car. And I went
out there and I seen my son in there. And he has bronchial asthma, and so when
I seen that he wasn't responding… I came inside and I gave him a breathing
treatment, but he's not waking up."
Jesus
Rico,
It's a fairly short distance from the front door to where the car was parked in front of the house. The grandfather tells us the child was somehow able to open one of the front doors and got inside the car.
It's happened before,
according to Rico.
"Sometimes I've seen
him open (a sliding glass door) and go outside to play with the dog," said
Rico. "But it's been no problem since it's the back yard."
No one knows exactly how
long
Captain Jay Dickerson with
the Katy Police Department said, "You're trying to talk to them, too, and
there's a lot of… You know, everybody's upset, everybody's hurt. Including the
city, you know, Katy, we're a small town. Everybody in town kind of hurts when
something like this happens."
The case is under
investigation. There is a possibility of an injury to a child charge. But
nothing has been filed yet.
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2004
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Katy parents
leave toddler in hot car
Updated: 5/17/2004
8:04:07 AM
By: Sabrina Goel
The toddler's parents found him in the back seat of
their car.
A 20-month-old boy is listed in critical
condition after his parents found him in the back seat of their car. He is
suffereing from hyperthermia -- a heat related illness in which a person's body
temperature rises to a dangerous level.
Katy Police Sgt Robert Martin said, “The child was allegedly inside a vehicle parked in front of the residence for an undetermined amount of time with the vehicle not running.”
Police say that his core temperature had reached 107 degrees. He
was taken by helicopter to
“If any charges are filed, that will be up to the district
attorney's office,” said Sgt. Martin.
In
According to published reports, the number two cause of death for children under the age of 14 is being left in a hot car.
Over the past four years, these types of deaths have risen
dramatically. There were 42 deaths last year in the U.S. Ten of those deaths
were in
With summer upon us and the mercury rising, incidents like children overheating in cars can happen very quickly. But there are some safety tips that you can use to keep your children safe.
Always check before and after driving to make sure that a child has not been left in a car.
Never leave an unattended child in a car even for a few minutes.
And if you cannot open the car door, break a window and call 911.
It only takes about 10 minutes for temperatures to rise 19 degrees. Even if it is 70 degrees outside, it can be 120 degrees inside an enclosed car. Heat stroke can occur when the body reaches 104 degrees.
So far this year, five children across the country have already died after being left in hot cars. These deaths occurred in mild temperatures, not in the full heat of summer.
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Toddler Dies After
Locked In Car
Incident Remains Under Investigation
POSTED:
8:13 a.m. CDT May 17, 2004
UPDATED: 4:32 p.m. CDT May 17, 2004
KATY,
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Young Boy
Sits In Locked Car On 80-Degree Day 
A neighbor witnessed the
mother's discovery of the toddler Sunday around 2 p.m. on
"I saw a woman running
toward the car and she started to bang on the window. Then I saw a man come out
from the house and throw her the keys. They opened the door and took the baby
out as an ambulance showed up," a neighbor, who spoke in Spanish and asked
to remain anonymous, told News2Houston.
The boy's mother, Dena
Davidson, said she woke from a nap and found her son unconscious in her car.
Police said Davidson and her
boyfriend were asleep inside the house when the toddler managed to get out of
the home, climb into the unlocked car, turn on the hazard lights and lock
himself inside.
The mother's call for help
was released by Katy police.
911: "Katy 911. What's your emergency?"
Mother: "Yes, I had just woke up, and I was looking for
my son. I seen that my hazard lights were on in my car. I went out there and I
seen my son in there."
Mother: "We were looking for him and we couldn't find
him. He must have gone outside. Car was locked. I don't think he could get back
out."
The mother said the boy was
unresponsive but breathing.
Mother: "I gave him a breathing tube, but he's not
waking up."
911: OK. Don't worry. The ambulance is on their way, OK, ma'am?
Hospital officials said the
child, who suffered from asthma, passed away Monday shortly before noon. It is
not known how long the child was inside the vehicle
Neighbors said the family is
very nice and that they were shocked by the tragedy.
The case remains under
investigation by the Katy Police Department and Children's Protective Services.
Officers plan to interview family members, friends and neighbors.
The Waller County District
Attorney's Office will decide if charges will be filed. Charges could include
injury to a child or serious bodily injury.
Officials released the
following tips to prevent similar tragedies.
- Put
deadbolts on house doors.
- Place
locks high on doors where children cannot reach them.
- Make
sure side doors are secure.
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Toddler dies
after spending day in hot car
10:49 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 18, 2004
KATY -- A 20-month-old Houston-area boy has died after he was found in his mother's car in front of the family's home.
Adrian Moreno of Katy died Monday at a
The boy's family says he was thought to be napping with his mother in the house. But his mother, Dena Davidson, awoke in the early afternoon and found him gone. She says her search located him unconscious in the locked car, which had its hazard lights on.
Temperatures were in the 80s at the time.
Katy police and
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Doctors can't
save baby found in hot car
03:37 PM CDT on Monday, May 17, 2004
KATY -- Katy police say a 20-month-old baby found inside his parents' car over the weekend has died at the hospital.
Investigators say the child's parents said the boy was asleep with them in their bed Sunday afternoon.
When they woke up, they say the toddler was missing. They found him in the front seat of the car outside.
Police have released the 911 call the mother made upon finding her child.
"I had just woke up and I was looking for my son, and I see my hazard lights were on in my car. And I went out there and I see my son in there," the baby's mother said.
"He has bronchial asthma … so I came inside, I gave him his breathing treatment and he's not waking up. He's breathing but he's not waking up," she said.
Detectives are still investigating the case.
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