Baby Dies After Hours in Hot Car; Stepgrandfather Arrested in Texas

Tragic Hot Car Incident

• 💔 A six-month-old baby girl, named Remedy Worth, has died after being left in a car for several hours in Rockwall, Texas.
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 The child's stepgrandfather, Cameron Leechman, is charged in her death, which the family describes as a "horrible, horrible mistake" involving relatives.

Circumstances of the Incident

• 🚗 Police state Leechman was supposed to take the infant to daycare after dropping his wife at Rockwall Heath High School.
• 🏠 Instead, he drove home and forgot the baby was in the car until he picked up his wife at the end of the school day.
• 🌡️ The infant's internal temperature reached 107 degrees Fahrenheit after being left in the car all day.

Hot Car Deaths in Texas

• ⚠️ This incident marks the sixth hot car death in Texas this year and the 25th nationwide, according to Amber Rollins of kids in car safety.
• 👶 Texas leads the nation in hot car tragedies.

Child Alert Technology

• 🚨 Rollins highlights that a federal regulation requiring child alert technology in all new cars, ordered by Congress, is overdue and has not yet been enforced.
• ⏳ The final rule from the DOT was due a year and a half ago.