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Foster Mum Arrested As 5-year-old Boy Dies After Being Left In Hot Car For 7 hours

The boy was found unresponsive outside of a beauty salon where his foster mother works shortly after 5 p.m.

A 40-year-old woman has been arrested after her 5-year-old foster son died while he was left in a hot car in Omaha, Nebraska, for about seven hours.

The boy was found unresponsive outside of a beauty salon where his foster mother works shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 10, according to Omaha police.

The 5-year-old was taken to a hospital where he was declared de@d, police said.

His foster mother, Juanita Pinon, of Omaha, was arrested and charged with child abuse by neglect, resulting in de@th, police announced Thursday, July 11.

“The suspect did not provide a statement to declare whether it was an accident or intentional,” police spokesperson Chris Gordon told ABC News.

The temperature climbed to 89 degrees in Omaha on Wednesday.

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