NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans police have arrested a woman accused of leaving a 3-year-old boy in a parked car in sweltering heat for over eight hours Tuesday.
The woman, Genee' Brumfield, 23, is identified as the godmother of the child. She was booked Tuesday with negligent homicide charges.
Police said Brumfield picked up the toddler at approximately 8 a.m. and was supposed to drop him off at a daycare center. Instead, she stopped at her house in the 600 block of South Scott and left the boy inside the car, parked outside the home with the windows rolled up.
"This is certainly a situation that’s devastating,” said Deputy Police Chief Marlon Defillo.
Defillo said the little boy was inside the car with the windows rolled up for eight to eight and a half hours before he was discovered after 4 p.m.
“The sister of the godmother came outside and found the 3 year old unresponsive in the vehicle. The child was taken into the home,” Defillo said.
EMS pronounced the child dead at the scene. Defillo said it's not clear why the child was left in the car.
“This absolutely should be a wakeup call to anyone that leaves a child inside a vehicle that’s locked, the windows up where there's no ventilation,” Defillo said.
Brumfield was taken to University Hospital after becoming overcome with emotion, police said. Later she was arrested.
An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of the child's death
Posted By: Siebra Muhammad
Wednesday, June 1st 2011 at 10:27AM
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