A juvenile neighbor has been arrested and charged with negligent homicide for the death of the infant left in a car on Tuesday, according to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office.
According to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office, a 6-month-old child was strapped into a car seat for nearly seven hours before he was found dead on Tuesday night.
Detectives learned that the child’s mother asked a neighbor for a ride into Prescott Valley, along with her 6-month-old baby. On the way back from Prescott Valley the baby fell asleep in the car seat in the back seat of the neighbor’s car. The neighbor was asked to drop the baby off with his father who would be home shortly. The neighbor arrived home at around 2:00 p.m., parked the car exposed in the hot sun and went into their house, claiming to forget about the baby in the car.
The father of the baby contacted the mother around 8:45 p.m. asking when the neighbor was going to deliver the baby to him. The mother, still at work, immediately called the neighbor responsible for her baby, it was then the neighbor realized that the baby was left in the car. The neighbor ran next door to the father’s house and both the father and neighbor pulled the baby out of the car, called 911 and tried CPR.
The Medical Examiner responded to the scene to conduct their investigation of the deceased baby.