The 11-month-old girl and pet were inside the hot vehicle for at least six hours before they were found dead, the local sheriff told Newsweek.
A Virginia woman who was babysitting an 11-month-old left the infant and a dog in the car as temperatures hit"the upper 80s" before both were found dead hours later, the local sheriff toldKristen Danielle Graham, 40, of Seaford, Virginia, was taken into custody on Tuesday, charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanor animal cruelty, according to records from the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail, where she's being held.
"She took care of the child on a fairly regular basis," he said."Sometimes she would have the child for as much as a week at a time." The sheriff added that Graham has given conflicting accounts of why the child and dog were left in the vehicle.
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