An Alexandria woman named Zoraida Magali Conde Hernandez has been charged with felony child neglect after her 8-month-old baby died due to being left in a hot parked car in Arlington. 
 
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 The suspect car is towed from Inova Alexandria Hospital. More on this story Toddler dies after being left in car in Lansdowne, Md. 
 
 Police say the mother, who lives in Alexandria, had intended to drop the child off at daycare on her way to work in Arlington, but apparently forgot and went on to work. 
 
 When she left work, she still didn't notice the child. She only noticed at some point while she was driving that the child was in the vehicle and immediately drove to Inova Alexandria Hospital, where the child was declared dead at about 4:20 p.m. 
 
 Police believe the child died long before it got to the hospital. The high temperature Friday was 90. ||||| CLOSE Hundreds of infants and toddlers have died after accidentally being left in the car. This simple trick could help you never forget that your child is in the back seat. VPC 
 
 1-year-old Katera Barker of Nashville, Tenn., was found May 23, 2018, in the back of this pickup truck parked at her Nashville home. Her father had dropped off his 5-year-old at day care but forgot to drop off Katera, returned home and left for the airport on a business trip. (Photo: Metro Nashville Police) 
 
 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A father on his way to catch a flight at the airport left his 1-year-old daughter in the back of his pickup truck at their home, causing her death Wednesday, Nashville police said Thursday. 
 
 Matt Barker left home at 7:30 a.m. CT with his two children, intending to take them both to day care a few miles away, police said. He returned to his home in the East Nashville area about a half hour later and left a few minutes after that via a ride-share service for Nashville International Airport, where he flew out on a business trip. 
 
 His wife, Jenny Barker, left for her job in another vehicle thinking that both children were at the day-care center, police said. She went to the center in the evening to pick up Katera Barker and the child's 5-year-old sibling and was told that Katera never had been dropped off. 
 
 Jenny Barker then telephoned her husband and came to the realization that Katera, whom the couple had adopted recently, was still in the pickup truck. Jenny Barker called 911 at 5:42 p.m. as she pulled into her driveway. 
 
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 She removed Katera from the pickup truck and began cardio-pulmonary resuscitation until paramedics arrived. Katera was transported to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. 
 
 Matt Barker flew back to Nashville, arriving late Wednesday, police said. He and his wife have been fully cooperative with the investigation, and no charges have been filed. 
 
 Wednesday's high temperature here reached 89 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. So the temperature inside the truck could have reached nearly 120 degrees. 
 
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 The girl's death is the seventh so far this year and all have been children a year old or younger, according to NoHeatstroke.org, a website of hot-car death information compiled by Jan Null. The San Jose State University meteorologist has been tracking the problem since 2001. 
 
 Other children have died this year in: 
 
 • Chesterfield, Va., where twins were found May 10 in the back of an SUV 
 
 • Eagle Pass, Texas, where a father forgot May 16 to take his daughter to day care 
 
 • Miami, where a mom went to work Feb. 28, forgetting her son was in the back seat 
 
 • North Charleston, S.C., where a father April 3 forgot to drop off his son at day care 
 
 • And Shreveport, La., where a dad forgot May 15 that his 7-month-old was in the car 
 
 In all, 749 children have died as result of vehicular heatstroke since 1998, according to the website. Almost a third were younger than 1, and more than 1 in 5 were 1 year old. 
 
 More than half of the deaths resulted from caregivers forgetting that the child was in the vehicle, according to Null's information. Aside from crashes, heatstroke is the leading cause of death in vehicles for children age 14 years and younger. 
 
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 A memory aid to help parents remove children from the back seat of a car comes from placing your purse or a shoe you were wearing in the back with the child, authorities said. 
 
 Tennessee is one of 19 states, as of May 1, with laws to protected people from liability who pull kids from cars if the vehicles are locked, a child cannot be rescued another way and harm is imminent, according to KidsAndCars.org, a nonprofit that advocates for the safety of children in vehicles. 
 
 In Tennessee, individuals who see a child unattended in a hot, parked vehicle must call 911 or law enforcement before forcing their way in. 
 
 Contributing: Nick Wooten, Shreveport (La.) Times. Follow Natalie Neysa Alund on Twitter: @nataliealund 
 
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 The tragedy unraveled on a gravel driveway at a home in Tennessee, where a family’s dark blue pickup truck sat, eerily, with a rear door still ajar and an empty car seat lying beside it on the ground. 
 
 Authorities said it was there, in East Nashville, that a father said he forgot his 1-year-old daughter in a hot car Wednesday and, sometime later that evening, the mother discovered the child. 
 
 The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said on Twitter that the child was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. 
 
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 The incident marks at least the seventh instance in which a child has died in a hot car this year, according to data from NoHeatStroke.org, which has been tracking child vehicular heat-stroke deaths since 1998. Over the past two decades, an estimated 37 children have died of heat stroke each year in the United States, according to the website. 
 
 It was about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday when Matt Barker took his 1-year-old daughter, Katera, and her 5-year-old sibling to day care, Nashville police said in a statement to The Washington Post. 
 
 Barker reportedly dropped the older child at a day-care center in Nashville but forgot Katera, who was in her car seat in the back of his truck, police said. Then he returned home, police said, parked the vehicle in the driveway and called a ride-share service to take him to the airport, where he planned to catch a flight for an out-of-town business trip. 
 
 The children’s mother, Jenny, went to work in her car, police said. 
 
 It wasn’t until that evening when Jenny Barker went to pick up the children from day care that she learned that her younger child had not been dropped off, police said. 
 
 “She telephoned her husband and came to the realization that Katera was still in the pickup truck,” police said in the statement. Police said that as she pulled into the driveway at the home on Virginia Avenue, she dialed 911. 
 
 “She removed Katera from the pickup truck and began CPR until paramedics arrived,” police said. 
 
 Police said the toddler was pronounced dead upon arrival at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. 
 
 
 
 (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department) 
 
 Temperatures in Nashville averaged about 70 degrees Wednesday, but experts say that inside a vehicle, it can get much hotter. 
 
 In a study released Thursday by Arizona State University and the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, researchers compared temperatures inside six vehicles in Tempe, Ariz., where the heat climbed into the 100s. They found that vehicles parked in the shade hit nearly 100 degrees within just an hour. When vehicles were parked in the sun, the temperatures rose to 116 degrees. 
 
 “These tests replicated what might happen during a shopping trip,” Nancy Selover, a climatologist and research professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State, said in a statement. “We wanted to know what the interior of each vehicle would be like after one hour, about the amount of time it would take to get groceries.” 
 
 But, the researcher said, what surprised them was the surface temperatures. 
 
 When vehicles were parked in direct sunlight, the seats averaged 123 degrees within that same period. Steering wheels, 127 degrees. Dashboards, 157 degrees. 
 
 “We’ve all gone back to our cars on hot days and have been barely able to touch the steering wheel,” Selover said. “But imagine what that would be like to a child trapped in a car seat. And once you introduce a person into these hot cars, they are exhaling humidity into the air. When there is more humidity in the air, a person can’t cool down by sweating because sweat won’t evaporate as quickly.” 
 
 The situation can turn dire when a body temperature reaches more than 104 degrees and a person cannot cool down. In such cases, the person can experience heat stroke — becoming dizzy, disoriented and confused, feeling fatigued or falling into a coma, according to the National Institutes of Health. When the condition is not properly and promptly treated, it can lead to death. 
 
 In the recent study, the researchers discovered that a young child trapped in a hot car in the sun could reach life-threatening temperatures in about an hour. 
 
 Following the hot-car death in Tennessee, NewsChannel 5 reported that the child was recently adopted by the Barkers and celebrated her 1st birthday with them. 
 
 Her birth mother, who was not publicly identified by NewsChannel 5, told the station that she learned about the toddler’s death Wednesday night when the adoption agency informed her that there had been a terrible accident. She said she was devastated by the news and she wants to know what exactly happened. 
 
 Police said the father flew home Wednesday night and that the couple have been cooperating with the police investigation. No charges have been filed, police said. 
 
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– A mother is facing felony charges of child neglect after her 8-month-old son died from being left in a hot car for hours, reports the Washington Post. Police in Arlington, Virginia, don't think Zoraida Magali Conde Hernandez, 32, did so deliberately. She apparently meant to drop the boy at day care on her way to work yesterday, but forgot. She worked for six hours, then discovered the child in the back seat only after going to pick up another child at day care, reports WJLA. The high temperature reached about 90. In suburban Baltimore, meanwhile, a 16-month-old girl died yesterday when a relative mistakenly left her in his vehicle for about four hours, reports the Baltimore Sun. Police say the man picked her up from one spot and was supposed to drop her at day care. Instead, he drove home, took a long nap, then drove to the day care to pick her up. "After learning that the child had not been dropped off, he ran back out to the truck and found the child in the vehicle," say police. No charges have been filed, reports ABC2News, which says the relative is not the girl's father.