[DiamondSmiles]

Baby dies, toddler hospitalized after being left in cars in Indiana

Hancock County Jail

Joshua Stryzanski, 18, is charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death.

A baby girl died and a toddler was in critical condition Saturday after they were left in separate vehicles in the Indianapolis area on a day in which the temperature hit 104 degrees, a record for the date.


Greenfield Police Chief John Jester said a 3-month-old girl was found in a car at 3:35 p.m., the Indianpolis Star reported. The girl was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Jester said the baby's father, Joshua Stryzanski, 18, was being held at the Hancock County jail on a charge of neglect of a dependent resulting in death, the Star reported.

Greenfield is a city of about 20,000 east of Indianapolis.

In the other incident, at about 3 p.m. police broke a window in a Ford Explorer to free a 16-month-old girl in the city of Fishers, northeast of Indianapolis, the Star reported. The child suffered a seizure before being taken to an Indianapolis hospital, a Fishers police spokesman told the Star.

Storms, sweltering heat move east

The temperature inside the SUV after the window was broken was 124 degrees, the Star reported, citing unnamed officials.

Fishers police said the child's mother, Meg Trueblood, 30, of Fishers, was charged preliminarily with felony neglect of a child, the Star reported.

The National Weather Service said the temperature in Indianapolis hit 104 degrees, breaking the record for July 7 of 101, set in 1936. The all-time high for the city is 106, set on July 14, 1936.

In the heat wave gripping the United States this week, at least 61 heat-related deaths have been reported, according to an NBC News count. That number does not include the baby's death.

The picture below is the murderer of the baby.

[petedeamon]

Unfortunately babies are not a priority to many of these young parents. In today's society there is no reason for pregnancy when it's unwanted. I hope they throw the book at him and hopefully he will not stop remembering what he has done. It's disgusting what we have become.

[DiamondSmiles]

Hard to believe we are the same species when I read things like this!

Most people only think of themselves these days and the innocents are payng for it.

[dean mclean]

There's no reason a baby should ever be left in a car...either get a sling to carry him/her or leave it with a neighbor you trust while you go shopping or whatever
what the fuck is wrong with these people

[K9Grip]

I don't understand who the hell you can leave your kid in the car. Some of these fools say they "forgot" the kid was in the car with them. BULLSHIT!! Even when my daughter was an infant, she was always making some kind of noise back there. Not to mention the fact that babies don't just hop in the back seat and buckle in. You have to put them in the car. No excuses.
I hope they both die slow painful deaths.

[Flaka]

This is absolutely terrible. How could anyone leave a baby in that kind of heat alone in a car! what the fuck?

They should stick his ass in a sauna, turn up the heat, and let him suffer the way that baby did.

Rot in hell asshole

[Sandbwoy]

Leaving a baby in a car unattended at any time is bad enough, but during a heatwave with extreme temperatures it is diabolical.

[Soar]

These types of incidents make me so angry.

Same when people leave their animals in cars on hot days.

[chris50stang]

reminds me of the family guy when they forgot stewie in the car at the football game and 2 people walk by saying oh my god look at that baby hes gonna miss the game and keep walking

[kellyhound]

Every summer the same kinda stories about babies and pets left behind in the car.
Always think that those assholes think it's an "accidental" good reason to get rid of them.
stupid mom: