The 2-year-old child, Apolo Gabriel Rodriguez, died Tuesday after being forgotten for more than eight hours inside a school van that was supposed to leave him at daycare and parked outdoors in temperatures of more than 40 degrees. parking in the Vila Maria area, in the north of the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. The driver of the van and the woman transporting the children were arrested and charged with murder.
Apolo got into the van around 7am to go to the daycare center where he had been for four months after his mother got a job and cried a lot, begging him not to go as he was still not used to being separated from his mother. family all day. Upon arriving at the daycare, the driver and his wife picked up all the other children, but for some reason they cannot explain, they forgot Apolo, who was stuck in a safety seat in the back of the van in second place. – last place.
The school bus driver only discovered the tragedy when, around 4:30 p.m., nearly nine hours after dropping off the children at daycare, he returned to the car to do the opposite job: picking up the children from daycare and driving them home. The baby was already dead at that point, having passed out in the car seat in which he had been trapped all day in the scorching heat.
Completely distraught, as he described in his statement to the police, the driver took the dead boy to a daycare center, where he was instructed to take him to the hospital. At the Vila Maria municipal hospital in the north of the city, known as the Vermelinho, doctors pronounced him dead and the police were called.
On this Tuesday, the average temperature in the city of Sao Paulo was 38 degrees, but in some hotter areas it reached 43 degrees, and it was in this scorching heat that Apolo remained all day in a van parked in the sun, where temperatures reached even higher values. At the police station, the driver and his wife said Tuesday’s heat wave made them feel unwell and had severe headaches and that it may have contributed to the child’s tragic forgetfulness, but that argument was not accepted by police. who ordered the arrest of both.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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