A terrible family tragedy occurred in Arizona: a three-year-old girl died in a hot car because her father had left her there.

In Arizona, USA, a three-year-old girl died in an overheated car. The child’s father, Scott Jones, had accidentally left his sick daughter Charlotte in the car, as the British “Mirror” reports.

On the day of the tragic incident, little Charlotte had stayed home sick. Her father, Scott, drove Charlotte’s sister to school as usual and returned home without remembering that Charlotte was still in the back seat of the car. It was a hot day, with temperatures in Arizona reaching 36 degrees Celsius.

According to the Mirror, the father only realized what had happened four hours later, when his wife called and asked about his father and daughter. Charlotte had already died of the heat by then. Despite an immediate emergency call, the girl could not be saved.

The girl’s mother, Angela Jones, told Fox News Digital: “Suddenly I heard panic in his voice,” adding: “At first I thought she had fallen in the pool or something, and then he said, ‘Oh God, I don’t think I ever got her out of the car.’ Then he realized what had happened and ran down the driveway.”

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