While the remainder of the apartment was between 84 and 85 degrees, the closet had temperatures as high as 108.3.
The girl’s parents, 21-year-old Sintia Perez and 23-year-old Jace Hirschy, confessed to placing the kid in her cot inside the closet at
Around 7 p.m. on November 26 while a space heater was set almost to its highest setting, according to the police.
Surprisingly, until about 3 p.m. the next day, neither parent checked on the toddler for more than eighteen hours.
The infant died from hyperthermia, a syndrome brought on by extended exposure to intense heat, according to an autopsy.
After the incident, the two other children of the couple were taken from their house by the Indiana Department of Child Services.
