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OMG Thank Goodness this baby was found !!!! I simply don't care how much stress one might assume to be under, to leave an 8mth old baby, drinking spoiled milk, in a soiled diaper, alone in a locked vehicle .....GRRRRRRR!
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DAYTON —The baby sitter and godmother of an 8-month-old left alone in the car said his mother is under tremendous stress to care for the child and doing the best she can.
Dnaye Duerson, 19, was arrested Monday morning, July 6, on a misdemeanor child endangering charge after a passerby noticed the boy in the floor of the backseat of the car parked on East Foraker Street about 8 a.m.
The windows were up and the doors were locked, according to police.
Duerson, a part-time food service worker at Miami Valley Hospital, reported for work at 6 a.m., Dayton police Sgt. David Reed said.
Duerson posted bond late Monday night and was released from Montgomery County Jail.
“Dnaye is a good person and I think she left that baby in the car,” said Tasha Adams, the infant’s baby sitter and godmother. “She was real good with the baby at first, but since she’s gone back to work it’s been stressful for her to keep up.”
Reed said he believes Duerson planned to check on the baby throughout her shift.
The infant was found in a soiled diaper and clothes, Reed said. The boy had been drinking spoiled milk from a bottle .
There was no car seat in the car, Reed said.
Medical and child safety experts said Tuesday that children should never be left unattended even to run in and get a jug of milk from a convenience store.
It’s dangerous because an infant’s internal thermostat isn’t fully developed.
“Heat is going to transfer through (a baby) much faster,” said Lisa Schwing, trauma program manager at Dayton Children’s Medical Center. “And the part in the brain that regulates (core) temperature isn’t fully developed in infants and small children.”
Doctors have found a child’s temperature can rise three to five times faster than the average adult.
Temperatures Monday morning hovered in the mid 60s, but Schwing said sunshine can have a “greenhouse effect” inside a vehicle even in mild temperatures.
Last year 42 children died nationwide from heatstroke due to being trapped or left in a vehicle, according to the national child-safety organization Safe Kids.
“A vehicle’s inside temperature can rise 19 degrees in just 10 minutes and can rise 45 degrees in an hour,” Schwing said.
Heat stroke occurs at about 104 degrees, Schwing said.
Duerson’s son was in the car more than two hours, Reed said.
Duerson has yet to be formally charged in Monday’s incident. Detectives said they are planning to meet with city prosecutors this week.
The infant has been placed in foster care , said Ann Stevens, spokeswoman for Montgomery County Children’s Services spokeswoman.
The agency has had no prior cases involving Duerson or her son. Duerson has no prior record with police.