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Hero Neighbor Speaks Out After Finding a 4-Month-Old Left in a Hot Car for 12 Hours

NewsPublished May 31, 2019
By Genny Glassman
Jermius ScottFox 10

The neighbor of a 4-month-old baby has been heralded a hero after he saw the little one trapped in a hot car and busted the infant out of the vehicle. According to authorities, the baby had been left in the car overnight and it was only thanks to the quick thinking of Jermius Scott from Mobile, Alabama, that the child was saved after miraculously surviving that prolonged period in the heat.

Scott explained that he noticed the child trapped in the car about 9 a.m. Sunday.-placeholder
Scott explained that he noticed the child trapped in the car about 9 a.m. Sunday.
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Scott explained that he noticed the child trapped in the car about 9 a.m. Sunday.

Speaking with Fox 10, Scott shared that he first saw the black car parked in front of an apartment building in downtown Mobile five hours earlier, but when he went out to get something to eat about 9 a.m. he noticed a baby was inside.

“I was going crazy just thinking it’s a kid,” he told NBC 15. “When I saw him cry it almost made me cry."

That's when he decided to take the child's fate into his own hands. Using his elbow, Scott broke the back window of the car open. "And, so, as we came, we peeked in the car and we were like, 'Oh, there was a baby in there, said his friend, Tarance James. "It's hot, we need to hurry up and get him out.' So, when we saw that, he hit it with the elbow, unlocked the door, got the baby out."

 Scott said he used his elbow to break the window. "Seeing the baby turning purple in that car, I couldn't just leave that baby in there like that, man. That's dead wrong," he explained to Fox 10.

Baby in hand, Scott called for help from James, who was inside the house getting ready for church.

“When he got the baby out of the car I was looking at the baby like this can’t be true,” James told NBC 15*.*

"I see the baby turning purple. It was sweating, I looked at the scalp. It was dry and had dandruff,” he continued, and admitted the two feared the worst. “So, when they got the baby out of the car and the back was wet, the pamper was wet, the baby wanted to cry but it couldn’t cry, I’m like oh man.”

Police believe that the child's father was meant to be watching his baby, but he told investigators that he must have left the baby in the car after dropping off his two other children at their grandmother's house. The father told police that he had arrived home about 10 p.m. Saturday, but the child was not discovered until 9 the next morning -- meaning the child was left alone for almost a full 12 hours.

The baby was taken to the hospital to be treated, and Scott is speaking out about the father who left his child in danger.

The Division of Human Rights was also called to the scene and is still investigating, but that hasn't stopped Scott from voicing his opinion on the father who left his child in a car overnight.

"I don't know who it was and don't want to know because, you know, you're not supposed to hate nobody, but that's a hateful situation," he said. "So, I just pray the baby is all right and I hope nothing like that ever happens again."

So far no arrests have been made and police have yet to release the identity of the father, though they have allegedly classified the incident as a case of reckless endangerment.

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