Infant dies in car from heat stroke while mom plays pachinko

The Mainichi Shimbun
April 15, 2008
Source: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080415p2a00m0na003000c.html

KAJIKI, Kagoshima -- An infant boy died after apparently suffering from heat stroke in a car while his mother was playing pachinko, police said.

At around 4 p.m. on Monday, a fire station received an emergency call saying that a child was foaming at the mouth and looked pale in a car parked at a pachinko parlor in Kajiki and dispatched an ambulance.

Paramedics found the boy's 35-year-old mother holding him at the parking lot. His heart and lungs had stopped and he died shortly afterwards.

The mother had been playing pachinko at the parlor, leaving her 19-month-old son in her car at the parlor's parking lot.

The mother had asked a day-care center at the parlor to take care of her son, but it declined her request because it was full.

The temperature hit 23.7 degrees Celsius in the nearby city of Kagoshima at 4:23 p.m. on Monday, according to the Kagoshima Local Meteorological Observatory.

(Mainichi Japan) April 15, 2008

1-year-old boy dies after being left in car by pachinko-playing mother in Kagoshima

Japan Today
Tuesday 15th April, 10:04 AM JST
Source: http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/1-year-old-boy-dies-after-being-left-in-car-by-pachinko-playing-mother-in-kagoshima

KAGOSHIMA — A 1-year-old boy died after he was left in a car by his mother, while she was playing pachinko in Kajiki, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Monday afternoon. Police said the boy was found by his mother, 35, foaming at the mouth and barely conscious in the car around 5 p.m. She called an ambulance and he was taken to hospital where he died later of heatstroke, police said.

According to police, the mother brought her son to the pachinko parlor which offers a free child-care service. But the children’s room was already full, so the woman left her son in the car while she was playing pachinko from 2 to 5 p.m.

A local meteorological observatory said the temperature only reached 23.3 Celsius on Monday. Police are continuing their investigation.