A three-year-old boy died Monday after being 'mistakenly' left in a hot car for eight hours outside a Miami preschool where both his parents are staff members, according to the Miami Herald.
Sholom Tauber was one of several children from the same family who attended Lubavitch Educational Center - a Jewish daycare - in Miami Gardens, reports the Herald.
Temperatures outside were in the mid-90s Fahrenheit on Monday, with the heat index indicating 103 Fahrenheit as the highest temperature that day.
The unresponsive child was rushed to Jackson North Medical Center by helicopter, where he was pronounced dead.
The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner confirmed Tauber died of hyperthermia, and heat exhaustion, and listed the death as as accidental, according to NBC Miami.
Officials with the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's Officer carry out a body bag, believed to be the one of Sholom Tauber, three. The child died of hypothermia and heat exhaustion after his father forgot to let him out of the car on Monday, when temperatures in Miami were near mid 90s Fahrenheit
The boy's father, Rabbi Menachem Tauber, was interviewed by police to assess whether the incident was accidental, Local 10 reported. His wife, Nehama Tauber also works at the day care although it remains unclear if she was scheduled to work on Monday.
Authorities believe the Rabbi forgot about his son after he pulled into work at the daycare on Monday morning.
Later that day, at around 3 p.m., the father rushed to his car after a person at the daycare told him that his son hadn't been seen all day. However, the child was already believed to be dead, the Herald reports.
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Share'This tragedy hits close to home, and many in our school community have been affected by it. No words can capture the heartbreak and sadness we feel,' Rabbi Benzion Korf, the center's dean, said in a short statement issued late Monday.
Korf said a therapist and grief counselor would be available for staff and students at the center on Tuesday.
'Our deepest sympathies are with the family at this time of great loss,' Benzion Korf wrote. 'We ask the community for their prayers and to respect the family's privacy as they grieve.'
A three-year-old boy was found dead inside a hot car after his father forgot about him while working at Lubavictch Educational Center (pictured), a Jewish daycare, in Miami
Police are also looking into obtaining a warrant to access the daycare's surveillance cameras or any security footage nearby the area to analyze the incident.
It remains unclear how many of the victim's family members are still attending the daycare.
Florida is the state with the second-highest hot car related deaths in the U.S., after Texas, according to the National Safety Council.
Officially, there have been 99 hot car deaths in the Sunshine State since 1998. On average, that's a bit more than four per year.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the investigation into the boy's death remains ongoing.
Aaron Beck killed himself on June 28 after discovering his son, Anderson Beck, dead in his car. He had mistakenly left the 18-month-old toddler in the hot car while he went to work for three hours
A Virginia father killed himself last month after he found his 18-month-old son dead in the backseat of an overheated car.
Aaron Beck, 37, killed himself in the woods behind his home on June 28, after finding his son Anderson lifeless in the car.
The child's family alerted police that the boy had not shown up to daycare. And officers then went to the home after the family told cops that Aaron was threatening to harm himself. Officers found the body of the young child inside the home.
Police speculate the father went to work in the morning for three hours and forgot to drop his son off at daycare during an ongoing heatwave. Temperatures had reached a high of 80 Fahrenheit.
Anderson's and Aaron's lives were interwoven in life and death,' a Legacy.com obituary reads. '[Aaron] sacrificed his life to his son in an act of profound devotion and love.'
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