Harris County Sheriff’s Workplace investigators say Gbemisola Akayinode left the kid unattended within the car for hours in July whereas working at a Galena Park plant.
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Courtroom paperwork reveal new particulars in regards to the Houston-area lady charged with homicide after her baby died in a sizzling automotive over the summer season.
Gbemisola G. Akayinode, 36, was arrested on Friday, October 17, and charged with felony homicide within the July 1 demise of her 9-year-old daughter. The health worker’s workplace dominated Oluwasikemi Akayinode’s demise a murder as a result of hyperthermia or warmth exhaustion. Courtroom paperwork mentioned the lady’s physique temperature was 108 levels.
Akayinode’s bond was initially set at $1 million however a choose decreased it to $500,000 on Monday.
Harris County investigators mentioned Akayinode admitted that she left the kid unattended in her car for hours whereas she labored at a Galena Park plant. She claimed she gave her a bottle of water, ice cubes, a muffin and a chargeable fan, and cracked the again home windows.
In accordance with court docket paperwork, Akayinode by no means checked on her daughter whereas working her shift. When she returned to the automotive round 2 p.m., she thought the lady was pretending to be asleep. She shook her earlier than realizing her daughter had turned blue and was unresponsive. The sufferer was given CPR and pronounced useless on the hospital.
The excessive was within the higher 90s that day and in line with court docket paperwork, it was 97.4 levels contained in the car.
Courtroom paperwork say Akayinode blamed the lady’s demise on prescription medication given for ADHD, but in addition admitted that she gave the sufferer melatonin that morning and the night time earlier than.
The mom instructed investigators that she could not afford daycare till her subsequent paycheck, so she additionally took the lady to work along with her the day gone by, however checked on her throughout her lunch hour, court docket paperwork say. Akayinode’s supervisor mentioned he’d been giving her cash to assist make ends meet.
In accordance with court docket paperwork, a witness instructed investigators that she requested Akayinode why the lady wasn’t in daycare since her boss had paid for it, and she or he mentioned, “I’m sorry, I do know what I did.”
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez mentioned a window shade was within the entrance window of the automotive, which might have made it arduous for folks within the car parking zone to see the kid inside.
Tricks to forestall sizzling automotive deaths
Medical doctors say leaving a toddler in a sizzling automotive can change into harmful in a matter of minutes.
“When you begin attending to a physique core temperature larger than 102, 104, or larger, that may trigger vital harm to the mind, organs,” mentioned Dr. Anthony Arredondo of Texas Youngsters’s Hospital. “So it is arduous to say what time-frame, the longer they’re in there, the more severe it’s.”
Should you see a toddler or pet left inside a car alone, you might be inspired to name 911 instantly.
Automotive temperatures can climb by 19 levels in simply 10 minutes.
In accordance with the Nationwide Security Council, 38 youngsters die yearly after being left in sizzling vehicles.
Many deaths might be prevented by instructing your youngsters these 4 issues:
- Methods to unbuckle their automotive seat.
- Methods to honk the horn.
- Methods to activate flashers or hazard lights.
- Methods to unlock the entrance doorways if the kid lock is on the again doorways.
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