Chaya Shurkin, from Lakewood, New Jersey, has been charged with the death of the child following the incident on May 6. A panicked neighbour raised the alarm after noticing the one-year-old girl in distress inside the car. (Image: CBS2)Warm weather that day meant that temperatures inside the car would have reached 43 degrees celcius. The child was left in the vehicle after a mix-up with her parents over who was bringing her in, NBC reported . Lakewood Mayor Meir Lichtenstein said that temperatures outside that day were at around 21C - but the interior of the vehicle heated up rapidly.

Source: Daily Mirror June 18, 2019 19:20 UTC