Police arrested a woman in North Carolina (US) for manslaughter and child abuse after her eight-year-old daughter died alone in a car.

ABC News reported that on June 26, the woman left her daughter in the car in hot weather while she went into her office.

Ashlee Stallings, the 36-year-old accused, told the police that she left the car’s air conditioner on but thought her daughter turned it off because she was cold.

According to an affidavit cited in the report, the accused found her daughter unresponsive on the backseat floorboard when she returned to the car about an hour and a half after last texting with her.

The woman saw her daughter breathing shallowly and foaming at the mouth.

She broke the back window with a hammer and tried to drive to a hospital, but stopped at a business for help, according to the affidavit.

The child was pronounced dead early Thursday, hours after being taken to the hospital.

Hospital staff told the police that the girl suffered brain herniation due to hyperthermia, according to the affidavit.

The affidavit also said the woman admitted she knew it was 94 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) outside and that she shouldn’t have left her daughter alone in the car.

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