A 1-year-old girl was found dead after she was left inside a van at an Omaha day care center on one of the hottest days of the year — and the driver was arrested in connection with the tot’s tragic death, police said.
Officers and medics were called around 3 p.m. Monday to Kidz of the Future Childcare in Omaha for an unresponsive baby inside the sweltering van, police said.
It was not immediately known how long the youngster — identified by her family as Ra’Miyah Worthington — had spent inside the vehicle, but her parents suspect it must have been hours.
“I’m not comprehending how this could have even possibly happened,” baby Ra’Miyah’s devastated dad, Reeyon Worthington, told the station WOWT.
The call came as temperatures soared into the upper 90s and the heat index reached a sweltering 110 degrees — part of a heat wave scorching the Central US.
Ra’Miyah was rushed to Nebraska Medicine but could not be saved, police said.
The girl’s parents told the station that Ra’Miyah’s body temperature at the hospital was 109 degrees, and there was nothing the doctors could do to revive her.
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