6-year-old girl dies after she was left in a hot car while her mother’s boyfriend drove to work

A Florida man was arrested and accused of leaving a six-year-old child in a locked car while he was driving to work. The child later died in hospital from the extreme heat.

According to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, Markise Outing, 24, arrived at the Southern Manatee County Fire Department on May 20 around 5:17 p.m., requesting medical attention for his girlfriend’s daughter.

Paramedics rushed to help and found the child unconscious and not breathing. They believed the girl may have had a cardiac arrest.

After initial attempts to revive the child, paramedics transported her to a nearby hospital for further treatment. Before taking her to the hospital, paramedics noted that her core body temperature was 30.2 degrees Fahrenheit. The highest temperature in the Bradenton area of ​​Manatee County on May 20 was 89 degrees.

The child died later that evening in hospital.

When asked about her body temperature, Outing told deputies the girl was playing at the park and became overheated. However, in a statement, deputies said there were inconsistencies in Outing’s testimony and that GPS data collected by investigators led them to believe the child had been left in the parked car for several hours.

Investigators said Outing picked up the girl from school around 2:45 p.m., then drove to his business in Bradenton, where he allegedly left the girl in a locked car with the windows open.

Assuming Outing drove directly to the fire station after discovering the unconscious girl, she would have been locked in the car for approximately three hours.

MCSO said they believed the temperature inside the car exceeded 35 degrees Fahrenheit.

An autopsy later revealed that the girl died from extreme heat.

Outing was arrested June 25 and charged with aggravated murder of a child. He was booked into the Manatee County Jail.

Earlier this month, an infant died in Santee, California – 28 miles northeast of San Diego – after a two-month-old baby was left in a car for nine hours. FOX 5 in San Diego reports.

On June 12, the baby’s family returned home around 3 p.m., but allegedly left the baby in the car. Shortly after midnight on June 13, a family found the infant unresponsive in their vehicle.

Santee Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a 911 call at the home after receiving a 911 call around 12:30 p.m., attempted life-saving measures and transported the infant to a local hospital. As of June 26, the child’s family had not faced any criminal charges.

A study by the group Kids and Car Safety analyzed data from 1990 to 2023 and found that at least 1,083 children died in hot cars in the US during that period.

During this period, 155 children died in a car due to hot air in Texas, followed by Florida in second place with 118 deaths, and California in third place with 65 deaths.