Overview

• On June 13 around 11:40 AM a 24-year-old mother from Essen left her 14-month-old child in a black car parked on Minoritenstraße in direct sunlight at about 30 °C
• Two forensic officers from the Kleve police discovered the toddler sweating, pale and drowsy in the backseat and patrol colleagues shattered the passenger window to free the child
• Emergency services cooled and treated the child at the scene before returning the toddler in good health to the mother who arrived roughly 20 minutes after the rescue
• The mother maintained that her child had been asleep and that she was making a brief shopping trip with the car’s air conditioning already activated
• Authorities filed a detailed report and have launched a formal investigation into the circumstances of the child’s abandonment in the hot vehicle