ARCADE, N.Y. — A 5-month-old baby died after his mother forgot to drop him off at day care and left him in her hot car all day while she worked.

Lynn Brol, 32, of Franklinville arrived at her job around 8 a.m. Thursday and did not realize she had left her son, Brayden, in the car until she left work at 5 p.m., police in the rural Wyoming County village of Arcade said.

The child was already dead when the distraught mother called 911, Chief John Laird said. He said Brol usually dropped her son off at a day-care facility a quarter mile away from her office at a debt collection company.

No charges were immediately filed.

Thursday's temperatures climbed into the low 90s, with high humidity. The vehicle's inside air temperature likely exceeded 130 degrees, said Jan Null, an adjunct meteorology professor at San Francisco State University who researches vehicle temperatures and tracks instances of children left in hot vehicles.

Brayden was the 19th child to die in a hot car this summer in the U.S. and the first in New York state, Null said.

The number of such deaths has risen dramatically since the mid-1990s, totaling around 340 in the past 10 years. Experts said the increase coincides with the practice of putting children in the back seat, where they are more easily forgotten. That change was intended to protect kids after juvenile air-bag deaths peaked in 1995.

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Children are particularly vulnerable because their immature respiratory and circulatory systems do not manage heat as efficiently as adults'.

WTF?!? HOW DO YOU FORGET?!?!?! :puke

omg?!?! most of the daycares i know will call if they are missing a regular

I dont see how you could just forget one day to take your child to day care....especially if its a NORMAL DAILY ROUTINE!!

How does someone just forget they have a child in the car?!

My baby is on my mind all the time. There is no way I could forget about her. :no

I feel so bad for that child and her....what a HORRIBLE thing to happen to a child and for such a thing for a mother to live with.

OMG, that is horrible and so sad.

Well...I am going to make myself seem like a horrible mom, but there are times when he is so quiet back there, it feels like he's not there, even though I know he is.

There is still no excuse for that...I feel so sorry for the baby, because you KNOW he suffered :sadeyes

I feel so bad for that child and her....what a HORRIBLE thing to happen to a child and for such a thing for a mother to live with.

:agree That is so sad :(

something like this happened in my hometown a few years a go. a professor at uc irvine left his baby in the car (forgetting to bring him in for day care) and the baby died. horrible and sad on many levels. i always wonder how, if at all, his wife was able to forgive him.

Well...I am going to make myself seem like a horrible mom, but there are times when he is so quiet back there, it feels like he's not there, even though I know he is.

There is still no excuse for that...I feel so sorry for the baby, because you KNOW he suffered :sadeyes

yes but you check to see he's back there and don't ASSUME

Well...I am going to make myself seem like a horrible mom, but there are times when he is so quiet back there, it feels like he's not there, even though I know he is.

There is still no excuse for that...I feel so sorry for the baby, because you KNOW he suffered :sadeyes

I think there's a difference in feeling like he's not even there and totally forgetting that he's there, KWIM?

This is so awful...and how could u forget something that u do everyday..and babies make noise did she not hear anything?

I have forgotten to take the road to the daycare before but as soon as I look in my rearview I feel silly. Poor poor baby... what an incredibly horrible thing.

There is a case pending now north of here where a daycare facility left an 18month old in a van for 6hrs and of course the poor baby didn't make it. I just can't image...

:( this is actually something we learn about in training classes for preschool teachers back in texas. we'd cry every time. we always called parents after an hour when their child didn't show up at their regular time if the parents didn't call first. but i don't blame them for not pressing charges right away. that's a tough call. because you know that mother will "punish" herself plenty the rest of her life without help from the state.

That is horrible...

How in the world can any one forget their child is in the car. This should of never happen. I just want to yell WHY.

I agree with the statement How on earth could you forget you have your baby in the car? She had to been not thinking period. I mean really how can you forget they are in the car when you take them every single day. to me there is no excuse for that.

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whatt is going on with all of these people leaving kids in hot cars??? i dont care who u are that is unnacceptable. It just saddens me to know that the children are the ultimate sufferers in these cases, i just dont get it......

Just doesn't make sense to me - truly horrific :(

This is a horrable situation. How could you forgit your own child???? That poor baby.

Seriously how effing hard is it to remember your own child? grrrr

:no I don't know if I can stand to read any more stories like this. There is no excuse for forgetting.

What has always struck me as very sad is that one of the pieces of advice that surfaces every time one of these incidents happen is for parents to "put something important - like a purse or briefcase" in the backseat with the child so that when they get to their final destination they will go into the backseat are to retrieve the IMPORTANT briefcase or purse and see the child is still there. Sad day when a purse or briefcase is harder to forget than your own infant.

I hate hearing stories like this, it's so sad :no:pout:gloomy

You know, a few years ago (during another rash of these incidents) there was a guy from NASA on one of the news shows (ie 20/20) and he had actually invented a device to address this issue. The device was two parts - a pressure sensing plate that would be installed under the pad of a carseat and a remote device that would be put on your keychain. The basic idea was that if the plate detected pressure (the weight of a baby in the seat) and the remote got more than x feet away from the seat an alert would sound and would not stop until you returned to the car and removed the weight(child) from the seat. At the time of that interview he had finalized the plans and gotten it to the point of being a working product but had not found anyone who wanted to take it into production.

oh wow how the crap they fucking forget?!

I can see how those motion detecting and pressure sensing devices would be great, but how many parents are going to buy them? I mean, who thinks that there is a chance that they'll actually forget their child?

That poor poor baby. I can't even imagine what he went through in the hot ass car. That just breaks my heart. I always check when I get into my van that both kids are in there and buckled and when I get out I get both kids I don't need to check that. This poor woman has to live with this for the rest of her life. We will never know what went on that morning and why she forgot about him but it will haunt her forever. :sadeyes

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:sadeyes How horrible.