Florida police said a 27-year-old woman left a 3-year-old child in a hot car for several hours while she donated blood at a plasma center on Sunday afternoon.
The woman found the girl unresponsive when she came back to the car and frantically called police for help at about 4:32 p.m., according to a Facebook post from the DeLand Police Department.
‘I started to cry because I didn’t think I was going to be able to get her back.’
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While police raced to the business park on New York Avenue, bystanders tried to help the girl, and one was giving her CPR when emergency responders arrived.
The girl was rushed to a hospital in critical condition.
An investigation by the DeLand Police Dept. determined that Latana Williams left the child
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