Mother who went to work leaving one-year-old daughter in hot car to die charged with negligent manslaughter
A Florida woman was recently arrested and charged with negligent manslaughter after it was reported that she left her one-year-old daughter in a hot car while she went to work for seven hours. The Daily Mail reported that this incident was one of two hot car deaths in the state that very day.
Kailyn Pollard claimed that she forgot her child was still inside the car and only discovered the body after picking up food from Olive Garden and stopping at a Wawa gas station that afternoon.
It took the Sorrento resident 40 minutes after getting back inside her car to realize her little girl Kit Noelle Pollard had been left behind, despite the rear-facing child seat set up so the driver can see behind them. The set up is such that it enables "direct visual connection with the driver and car seat rider via rearview mirror," said the deputy who arrested the mother.