Toddler dies after being left in vehicle for eight hours in Smithtown

Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the death of a toddler who was left unattended in a hot car for approximately eight hours.

A 54-year-old Greenlawn woman forgot to drop off her 14-month-old granddaughter at day care on July
31 and went to work, leaving the child in a car seat in a back seat. Approximately eight hours later, the
woman went to pick up the child at the day care, located on Redwood Lane in Smithtown, when she
realized she had left the child in her vehicle, a 2018 Jeep Cherokee.

The child was transported to Saint Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown where she was
pronounced dead.