Car windows smashed to rescue toddler

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Car windows smashed to rescue toddler

Two people have smashed the windows of a car parked in Sydney's northwest to help an overheated toddler left alone while his mother went shopping.

The incident has prompted police to warn parents of the dangers of leaving children alone in hot cars, saying the temperature inside can be up to 40 degrees Celsius hotter than outside.

A member of the public noticed the 18-month-old boy in the car, with the windows wound up, at a shopping centre at McGraths Hill on Tuesday.

He had the car's registration details broadcast through the complex.

When no one came forward, two members of the public went to the vehicle, where the child was screaming, and smashed the windows.

The boy was given water to cool down and police and paramedics attended the scene before his 34-year-old mother was found.

The toddler was taken to hospital as a precaution and police are continuing to investigate the incident.

Saw this on the news and the poor lil boy was screaming his head off and looking so hot. His rescuers told his mother off big time. 20 minutes left unattended in a car with windows shut is too bloody long.

Some supermarkets and most clubs will have a staff going around the carpark hourly checking for cars with kids left alone inside.
 
These parents whose left their child in car is truly IGNORANT! Same applies to those pet owners who think they can leave their pets in car without running and not even turn on A/C.

Sad, these people needs to be punished, period.
 
Damn, it is summer year in Aussie.
 
Parents are stupid! 40 C (104 F) Babies can die.

Some states law have passed that made it a crime to leave any child younger than 6 alone in a motor vehicle for more than 15 minutes. It's a second-degree misdemeanor, punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a fine.
 
I hope they lock the mother is a 150 degree cell so she can experience what her poor baby felt. Thank god for the people who smashed the windows to get the baby out.
 
She is an unfit mother for leaving her kid in the car while shopping. She should have known better!
 
Agree with you all. She has now been charged and faces a fine of $20,000.

Her friend defended her and said she just forgot she had her kid in the car.

I was like 'wtf, mothers don't forget their kids'
 
WHY do a lot of "parents" do this to their kids? that's just stupid. poor kid!
 
I don't get it either..if it came out of your own body you should have an EMOTIONAL and PHYSICAL attachment to your child ...so how do u forget that it's in the car!
 
She should have taken her kid with her, no matter what...if she can't handle having a kid. She should just don't have a kid in the first place!
 
Wow...and they had to do something to save the kid, by smashing the windows in the car to get him out and cool him off before he would've died of heat stroke. the mother's now going to have difficulty of keeping custody of the child after what she did to him.
 
The mother is an unfit mother and therefore she should lose custody of her child and hand him over to more responsible relatives and she should not be allowed to have contact with her child ever again so that this can never happen again, and also she should be required to have her tubes tied so she can't have any more children to accidentally harm just because she's too stupid to remember to take her child out of the car. She must have been born with only half a brain or something. She's just plain stupid and a unfit mother. Gosh, what stupidity. It's just so astounding.
 
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