One family is under investigation and another family has been arrested for leaving a child unattendeed in a hot car.
In the first case, a 22-month-old was left in a car seat for three hours before she died. Ocoee police are still investigating the death.
As for the other family, the parents were lucky, their 3-year-old daughter is doing OK, but her French mother and father are behind bars, charged with child abuse. Many other children do not make it, dying inside these extremely hot cars.
News 13's Karent Castillo turned on a faucet in a kitchen sink. At its hottest temperature, it reached 120 degrees. If you put your hand under the water for more than five minutes, it would become a third-degree burn. This is the same temperature that detectives said the 22-month-old girl felt while inside her mother's car Tuesday.
The Department of children and families investigators are working with police to decide what, if any, charges to recommend to the state attorney.
"When you talk about criminal law you are talking about punishment. You can't punish someone more than losing their child on someone that made an accident so it is going to be somewhat challenging,” said Alan Abramowitz from the Florida Department of Children and Families.
A national database, www.kidsincars.org, is tracking the deaths of children left unattended in cars and 26 kids have died nationally this year.
Because these deaths are on the rise, some companies are coming up with ways to remind parents there child is in the back seat.
The first one is in testing stages with NASA and called the NASA Child Presence Sensor.
There are two parts to the device -- a metal plate under the child's seat and an attachment to your keys. An alarm sounds when the keys and the metal plate are 15 feet away from each other.
The Company Baby Alert already has a device on the market. It comes with a device for the seat buckle and an attachment to your key.
If 20 feet or more separate the buckle and the attachment to the key, the parent is alerted with nursery rhymes on the key ring attachment.
Experts say most of the children left in cars are the younger ones, because car seats are turned around, preventing the parent from being able to see the baby when they leave the car.
The NASA device is not on the market yet, but if you are interested in the device made by Baby Alert. Go to the Baby Alert Web site at https://www.babyalert.info/home.php.