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The temperature in Arizona continues to rise. Pay attention to the safety of your children

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The temperature in Arizona continues to rise. Pay attention to the safety of your children. As dozens of children die in such accidents every year, experts specially remind summer. Parents must be special...

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Since dozens of children die in such accidents every year, experts specially remind summer Parents who arrive must remind themselves to pay attention to their children when they get off the car. Officials show that the temperature inside the car will rise sharply in just ten minutes when the car is parked. Therefore, even if the child is in the car for more than ten minutes, there will be a fatal risk. Especially in hot and dry areas like Arizona, parents are asked to pay special attention to the safety of their children.

This year, the 13th child died due to high temperature in a car forgotten by his parents. An Illinois man was charged with manslaughter. He passed out drunk at home and forgot his two-year-old son in the car, causing the child to die from high temperature.

This man is called Hubert and he is 32 years old. The deceased was 23-month-old Nathan. Nathan died in the car. The police measured the temperature inside the car as high as 135 degrees Fahrenheit. On Friday, the court also announced that he was also guilty of multiple charges such as endangering the custody of minors because his 4-year-old daughter was still at home when he passed out drunk. He was paroled on Saturday for $250,000.

Police said the child's skin temperature was 104.6 degrees Fahrenheit at the time, and the temperature outside that day was as high as 90 degrees. According to local police investigation, at 2:30 that afternoon, Hubert put his son in his Elantra four-door sedan. They planned to go out until the mother returned home at 5 o'clock and found that her son was placed in the car seat with only a small gap in the car window. When the ambulance crew arrived, the mother was holding her son and wailing, but little Nathan was already dead.

After the incident happened, it shocked the local community. Richter, a 63-year-old neighbor, said: "This is a very friendly family. These parents are very good to their children. They will not do anything to intentionally harm their children. Little Nathan is a smart and energetic little guy. We are sorry that such a thing happened."

According to official data, such tragedies happen dozens of times every year. Little Nathan is already the 13th child this year to die from high temperatures in a car because his parents forgot about him.

Just last weekend, a three-year-old boy named Anderson in Florida was declared dead. His parents left him in the car for several hours as they rushed to attend the funeral of a friend. His two older siblings and the nanny were only a few meters away, but no one realized poor Anderson was still in the car. And earlier this month, a 5-month-old baby girl was pronounced dead after being left in a minivan for several hours.

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