Baby Girl Chokes To Death On Reflux Milk After Mother Forgets Her In Car

A four-month-old girl choked to death after her mother forgot her inside a car in a parking lot. The baby's body was discovered hours later.

The incident happened in the parking lot of Prince Faisal Hospital in the Rusaifa area of Jordan on Sunday, Gulf Today reported. An autopsy conducted on the baby revealed that the infant reflux of milk led her to choke to death.

Local media reports said the baby girl was usually cared for by her mother's sister. However, on Sunday, the latter was unavailable, due to which the mother brought the baby to her workplace for the first time. Though her plan was to put her baby in the nursery of the institution she works at, the woman forgot the child in the back seat of the car when she reached there.

The windows of her vehicle were rolled up, the air supply was limited and the outside temperature was also high.

By the time, the woman remembered that she had forgotten her baby in the car, it was too late. She found her infant unresponsive. Though the child was immediately taken to the emergency room, she was declared dead on arrival.

The public prosecutor of Rusaifa has ordered an investigation into the incident. The child's mother is said to have told investigators that she forgot that the infant was in the car as she was not accustomed to bringing her to work.

The infant's body was handed over to the family for burial after the autopsy and further investigation.

In a similar incident, a 2-year-old child was found dead inside a hot car in Kansas recently. The child had apparently wandered outside his home after waking up from a nap and got into the vehicle.

Police said the child and mother were sleeping together and the mother was unaware that the boy had left the home. Though deputies and medical personnel responded to the home and carried out CPR on the child, he couldn't be saved. Investigators found the child unlocked the front door of the home and crawled into the family’s vehicle. It remains unclear for how long the toddler was inside the vehicle.