HOT CAR DEATH Miami woman is arrestered after leaving girl, 2, in a car for SEVEN HOURS instead of taking her to daycare
Monday, July 19, 2021
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A MIAMI woman has been arrested after leaving a two-year-old girl in a scorching car for SEVEN hours instead of taking her to daycare.
Juana Perez-Domingo, 43, was booked into jail on Saturday morning after she was accused of leaving the girl strapped in with a seat belt inside a sweltering van.
Juana Perez-Domingo, 43, was booked into jail on Saturday morning
Friends and family identified the little girl as Joselyn Maritza Méndez
Perez-Domingo has been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, according to jail records.
Friends and family identified the little girl as Joselyn Maritza Méndez, NBC Miami reports.
Cops said Perez-Domingo had been hired to take children to daycare in the neighborhood.
On Friday, the Florida woman had been paid to take Joselyn to a daycare in Homestead.
She picked the child up at 6.30am and took her to her own house as the daycare was not open yet, a police report said.
Perez-Domingo has been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, according to jail records.
Friends and family identified the little girl as Joselyn Maritza Méndez, NBC Miami reports.
Cops said Perez-Domingo had been hired to take children to daycare in the neighborhood.
On Friday, the Florida woman had been paid to take Joselyn to a daycare in Homestead.
She picked the child up at 6.30am and took her to her own house as the daycare was not open yet, a police report said.
'DISTRACTED'
At 8am, she put the little girl in the third row of her Toyota Sienna minivan - without a child's seat - to take her to daycare, Miami Herald reports.
The child was strapped in with the seat belt, but Perez-Domingo admitted she "got distracted" and went back inside the house.
The van was never turned on and the girl was left to swelter as temperatures hit the high 80s on Friday.
Perez-Domingo, who had no driver's license, went back to the van seven hours later at about 3pm and found the dead child.
Instead of calling the emergency services, the suspect called the child’s mom and "advised her that the victim had died", cops said.
Perez-Domingo then drove the child's body back to her family's house.
An autopsy was scheduled to take place on Saturday.
Bond was set at $50,000, and no attorney was listed for the suspect.
Originally published on The Sun