An Illinois mother was arrested this week after her infant son died in a hot car, Peoria authorities said.
Andrea Luncsford, 25, has been charged with endangering the health and life of a child in connection to the death of 1-month-old Grayson Luncsford.
The infant had been dead for “quite some time” when Police and Peoria County Coroner Jamie Hardwood responded to his family home at around 7 p.m. Monday.
Investigators couldn’t immediately determine how long the baby had been left in the car but said it was for an “extended amount of time.”
“When you have an infant or a kid in a car for any amount of time in this heat, the outcome is going to be as it is right now today, which we have the death of a 1-month-old who has died because they were in a car with no air conditioning, no ventilation, no nutrition, no hydration,” said Hardwood.
At least 33 children have died after being left in a hot car in the US this year.
