A 24-year old Georgia man has been charged in the deaths of his 16-month-old twin daughters after they were left in a hot car, Thursday.
On Friday, Asa North was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of reckless conduct.
The deaths of the twins make 26 children who've died in hot cars so far this year in the U.S. In 2015, 24 children died.
Dr. Tiffany Hernandez, of the Pediatric Health Care Alliance in Tampa, said children under four are at greatest risk.
“A child's body heats up about 3-5 times faster than an adult’s body,” Hernandez said.
A child’s thermoregulatory system is not fully developed so they absorb more heat and are less able to lower their body temperature by sweating.
When a child’s internal temperature is 104 degrees, their organs start shutting down. At 107 degrees, they could die.
Experts say rolling the windows down a couple inches lowers the temperature in a car by only two degrees.
The majority of children who die in hot cars are under 3, like Khosrow Jabbari’s daughter, Alexandria.
He said he always faces his rearview mirror toward her while he’s driving, just in case something happens.
“You have to watch them all the time. One eye always has to be on them,” Jabbari said. “Florida summers are ruthless. You have to be very careful with your kids,” he added.
There have been a lot of these cases:
