The mother has now been charged with manslaughter and child abuse with intentional serious bodily harm.

A woman has been charged after her eight-year-old daughter died when she was “left in a car in hot weather,” authorities said.

At around 6:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday, June 26, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers responded to a 911 call in Charlotte, North Carolina. Upon arrival, they found the child in critical condition before he was pronounced dead at a local hospital, police said in a news release.

After the crime scene was searched and additional police arrived, a police homicide investigation revealed that “the victim was left in a vehicle in hot weather and suffered a medical emergency.”

The girl’s mother, Ashlee Stallings, 36, has since been charged with manslaughter and child abuse with intentional serious bodily injury. She has been transferred to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

“The investigation into this case is active and ongoing,” the department said, asking anyone with information to come forward. “As more information becomes available, it will be released by the CMPD Public Information Office.”

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According to the prison website, Stallings was admitted on Thursday, June 27, one morning after her daughter was pronounced dead at the hospital.

According to ABC News, temperatures in Charlotte were already above 95 degrees on the day of the incident. The mother told police, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by the news agency, that she left the girl in the car with the air conditioning on because she was at work. She reportedly “believed the victim turned off the car because she was cold.”

The outlet also reported, citing the affidavit, that Stallings returned to the vehicle an hour and a half after he last heard from the child via text message and found her lying on the floor of the back seat of the car, unresponsive and foaming at the mouth.

She then reportedly smashed the car window with a hammer and attempted to drive to a hospital before stopping at a store to get help. “She admitted that she knew the temperature outside was 94 degrees and that she should not have left the victim alone in the car,” the affidavit states, according to ABC News.

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According to an affidavit obtained by ABC News, hospital staff told police that the girl suffered a brain hernia due to hyperthermia.

Stallings is currently being held on $250,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on July 16, according to ABC News. It is not immediately clear if she has legal counsel who can comment on her behalf.

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Local broadcaster WSOC said the mother worked at an Amazon branch. The company said it was working “closely” with police on the investigation.

“This is an incredibly tragic incident,” Amazon said, according to ABC News. “During this difficult time, we are supporting our employees and have made counseling services widely available.”

The nonprofit organization Kids and Car Safety reports that this latest death is the fifth confirmed death from an overheated car this year and the first in North Carolina in 2024. The four other children died in California, West Virginia, South Carolina and Florida and ranged in age from 2 months to 6 years.

If you suspect child abuse, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or visit www.childhelp.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in more than 170 languages.

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