A tragic incident occurred in North Carolina where an 8-year-old girl lost her life due to being left in a hot car, resulting in her mother being charged with involuntary manslaughter.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department responded to an emergency call on Wilkinson Boulevard in Charlotte and discovered the young girl in critical condition inside the vehicle. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Authorities concluded after investigating that the girl was left unattended in the hot car, leading to a medical emergency that tragically ended her life. The mother, identified as 36-year-old Ashlee Stallings, was taken into custody and charged with involuntary manslaughter and child abuse by willful act causing serious injury.
According to The Associated Press, the mother claimed she had left the child in the car with the air conditioning on while she went to work, but suspected that the child may have turned it off. She mentioned receiving a text from the child an hour and a half before returning to the car, only to find her unresponsive on the backseat floorboard.
She reportedly had to break into the car with a hammer and sought help from a nearby business on her way to the hospital. Stallings is now under the custody of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office.
