SMITHTOWN, N.Y. (1010 WINS) -- Suffolk County detectives are investigating the death of a toddler who was left unattended in a hot car for approximately eight hours on Monday.
According to officials, a 54-year-old Greenlawn woman forgot to drop off her 14-month-old granddaughter at day care and went to work, leaving the child in a car seat in a back seat.
About eight hours later, the woman went to pick up the child at the day care, located on Redwood Lane in Smithtown, when she realized she had left the child in her 2018 Jeep Cherokee.
The child was transported to Saint Catherine of Siena Medical Cente where she was pronounced dead.
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