THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 18, 2020 at 17:19 JST
The headquarters of the Ibaraki prefectural police department (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--A 2-year-old girl died on June 17 after her father apparently left her in a car while he was working from home, according to local police.
At around 3:20 p.m., the company employee, 40, found his young daughter unconscious in his car, parked at a local elementary school’s parking lot.
He asked a woman nearby to make an emergency call. The girl had suffered cardiopulmonary arrest--her heart had stopped. She was taken to a hospital but was confirmed dead.
The Tsukuba Police Station in Ibaraki Prefecture said the man let the girl come with him when he drove his eldest daughter, 8, to school that morning for her third-grade classes. After returning home, he started teleworking.
Based on his accounts of the incident, police said they believe the man accidentally left the younger daughter in the car after he returned home.
The man lives in Tsukuba with the two daughters and his wife, 42. His wife was at work that day.
The man reportedly only noticed his youngest daughter still in the car when he drove to the elementary school to pick up his eldest daughter in the afternoon.
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