An 18-month-old child who was
hospitalized yesterday with heat stroke after her mother left
her in a car for hours has died, sources at Meyer Children's
Hospital in Florence said Wednesday.
The hospital earlier reported the child's condition had
deteriorated after she was hospitalized yesterday in an induced
coma.
The toddler had been left in a car for three to four hours
in the coastal town of Vada in Livorno province.
Her mother told police she had a "memory lapse" while
taking her two daughters to nursery school and summer camp. She
dropped the six-year-old off at camp and went to work instead of
taking the younger child to nursery school first. It was only at
lunchtime that she remembered her youngest was still in the car,
and alerted emergency services.
The parents have reportedly agreed to donate the child's
organs.
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