Child left alone in brutal heat for 8 hours was ‘screaming’ for mom, IN cops say

A mother left her young child outside for eight hours as the heat index reached triple digits, according to Indiana police and news reports.

Officers with the Evansville Police Department were dispatched to an apartment Sunday, June 22, after receiving a report of a child “screaming for their mother,” according to WFIE.

The witness said the child was first seen playing outside at 7 a.m. and at 3:30 p.m. the child was still in the heat, the news outlet reported…

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