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North Carolina infant death is at least the ninth child's hot car death this year

(CNN)A one-year-old child on Friday after being left in the car outside his father's workplace in Mebane, NC. Died. According to North Carolina police, the number of heat-related vehicle deathsforchildren reported this year is at least nine.

The child was unresponsive when the police arrived shortly before 12:30 pm. According to police, at a manufacturing facility where his father worked about 23 miles northwest of Durham. It is unknown how long the child was in the car. Local temperature around 1 pm. According to the National Weather Service, it was 90 degrees.

The death is under investigation and has not been prosecuted, Mebane police said. Investigators were in talks with the Orange County Law Firm.

Another one-year-old child died Thursday in Danielsville, Georgia, "due to high temperatures in the car," according to Captain Jimmy Patton of the Madison County Sheriff's Office (MCSO). ..

"All the signs and information so far indicate that this is accidental," Patton said in an email.

On Sunday, officials said a3-year-old boy died in a hot carafter being left in a hot car for nearly three hours in southern Georgia. According to the

National Safety Counciland, the incident at Danielsville, about 87 miles northeast of Atlanta, killed at least the fifth child's hot car in June. was. NoHeatStroke.orgA data site operated by the Faculty of Meteorology and Climate Sciences at San Jose University.

According to the council, an average of 38 children under the age of 15 died of heat stroke after being left in the car.

According to a statement from MCSO, in the case of Danielsville, a sheriff's agent, EMS in Madison County, and local police responded before the child was taken to the hospital and sentenced to death. Provided assistance to.

The child's mother was in her office for a private period before she found the child, the statement said.

According to CNN's weather, temperatures in the area fluctuated between 86 and 88 degrees Celsius during the time the child was found on Friday afternoon. If the outside temperature is 86 degrees, the car can reach temperatures well above 100 degrees within 20 minutes.

MCSO said it had contacted the District Attorney's Office for the Northern Judiciary. The district attorney will receive the case for review after the investigation has been completed and it has been decided whether to prosecute.

Madison County Coroner Julie Harrison confirmed in her statement that she had died from "heat exposure," but stated that her child was 11 months old. The investigation was underway and an autopsy was underway.

A 3-year-old child died on Sunday in Columbus, Georgia

In another case in Georgia, Kendrick Engram Jr. returned home on SUV on Sunday. At around 5:30 pm, I finished my afternoon in a church with my grandmother and other children in Columbus, according to a report from the Coroners Office in Mascogie County on the death of a child.

She told investigators that she believed she got off the SUV when all the children went home, the coroner's report said, she said. I went to her bedroom. Kendrick's mother was working at the time, and she met a group at nearby Wal-Mart early in the lunch break, her report said.

Reportedly, at about 8:15 pm, almost three hours later, Kendrick's uncle used an SUV to drive to Wendy's restaurant and noticed that the boy was in the backseat. did not. He stopped the car and went inside. There he was later called by Kendrick's grandmother asking if he had met him.

Uncle found Kendrick "foam and blood coming out of his mouth" in the car and asked for emergency medical assistance. He arrived two minutes after the call, the report said.

Kendrick was described as "very hot to the touch" with no signs of life.

Choking is a preliminary cause of death, Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Brian told CNN. According to the National Weather Service

, Sunday temperatures in the Columbus region reached 96 degrees Celsius. The child's body was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for autopsy. The office said. According to Brian, it can take up to five months to complete the autopsy results.

CNN is seeking comment from Columbus police.

A baby left in a car died, police

after an 18-month-old boy was accidentally left in an unmanned car in Virginia. A few hours after he died, Chesterfield County police said on Tuesday. Police did not identify the cause of his death, but the Midlothian's high temperature, about 20 miles west of Richmond, was about 81 degrees Celsius that day. The child's father later took his life.

Last week in Texas, afive-year-old child died inafter being left in a car outside his family's Houston home.

According to data compiled by Jan Null, a lecturer at the Department of Meteorology and Climate at San Jose State University,most of the deaths from hot cars in childrenare due to the child being forgotten by a caregiver. It is occurring. Chemistry.

Tragedy often attracts public attention. According to experts, murder charges are fairly rare and the likelihood of conviction is even lower.

Last month, the Georgia Supreme Courtconvicted a 22-month-old son of murder of his father, who was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in 2014 by a hot car. I overturned it.

The Georgia Supreme Court has provided evidence by Justin Ross Harris's extramarital sexual prosecutor (depicted as the motive behind the state's decision to kill his son Cooper). Was unjustly disadvantaged and ruled 6-3. Impact on the jury.

The defense lawyer claimed that Cooper's death was a tragic accident caused by his father's memory loss.