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Baby left in car.....JUST DONT DO IT!

posted 8th May

Another baby left in car (Australia)

LESS than 24 hours after a baby died in a vehicle in Toowoomba, another child has been found locked in a car at a shopping complex south of Caboolture.
However, a spokeswoman for Emergency Services Queensland said a two-year-old boy locked himself in a car at Morayfield today.
The child's mother had been shopping at a baby outlet store at the Morayfield Supercentre when the child is said to have closed the door himself.
"It was a complete accident, the mother was there at the scene when he pulled the door shut and locked himself in the car," she said.
The spokeswoman said fire crews attended the scene, and a firemen extricated the child from the car, not a passerby as earlier suggested by ambulance officers.
"The firies went in there, smashed the window and took the child out of the car," she said.
Yesterday, amother who left her baby in the car while she collected her other children from a Toowoomba school returned to find the baby dead, according to police.
The child's body was discovered in a car parked outside the St Thomas More Catholic Primary School on Ramsay St about 3.30pm yesterday.
It is understood the child's mother left the baby in the car while she collected her other children from the school, which was a short distance away, and returned to find the girl dead in her baby capsule.
Ambulance officers and a teacher at the school tried in vain to resuscitate the baby.
Officers from the Child Protection Investigation Unit yesterday confirmed they were investigating the circumstances of the baby's death.
Last night the owner of the car and the girl's relatives were being interviewed by police at the Toowoomba police station.
Police did not say how long the child was left in the car but school finished at 3pm.
The top temperature in Toowoomba yesterday was forecast to have reached 22C.
However Dr Ruth Barker, from the Mater Children's Hospital, said the temperature inside a closed car could rise rapidly, killing children quickly from heat stress.
"It only takes a matter of minutes for the baby to get heat stress because the temperature rises very quickly," she said.
"It really doesn't take long."
Ambulance officer Mike Anderson told ABC Radio there was nothing paramedics could do.
"The baby in the back seat of the car had been left there and on our arrival we attempted CPR with police assistance and believe the baby had passed away some time ago," Mr Anderson said.
"Then we consoled the parents who were obviously distressed."
The baby's body was transferred to Toowoomba Hospital. It is believed the car was towed from the school by police soon after.
A cause of death was not yet known. A post-mortem examination will be conducted today.
John Borserio, of the Toowoomba Catholic Diocese, told the Nine Network the tragedy would touch the whole community.
"One of our teachers was alerted to a problem," he said.
"He tried to resuscitate the child but was unable to do so.
"Our thoughts are certainly with the family at this time.
"Life is so precious and when incidents like this happen, it really hits a rural community."
A Queensland Ambulance spokesman said of today's case in Caboolture: "It was only about five to six minutes.
"Someone broke into the car and got the child out before we got on scene."

Ambulance crews did not transport any patients from the carpark, and Child Protection Unit Officers from Caboolture were unavailable for comment as they were out of the office on jobs

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