Baby dies in hot car as mother got hair done at salon

Georgia - She returned to her car after 6 hours

Negligence and apathy of a parent can't get worse than this.

DiJanelle Etta Fowler, 25, who hails from Georgia in the US, left her 1-year-old daughter in a hot car and spent six hours in a beauty salon to do her hair. When she came back, she found her dead. However, the woman showed no signs of regret and covered the child's body to hide it.  

Fowler has been charged with felony murder, cruelty to children and concealing a death in the June 15 death of Skylar Fowler - who was found dead inside a parking deck at Emory University Hospital, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Fowler attended to a hair appointment at the Northlake Tower Festival Shopping Center in Tucker, while leaving her baby in the car. She was in the salon from 10:06am to 4 pm, according to witnesses and security camera footage.

After returning to the car, she probably discovered the child was dead. While asking a man for help to start her car, she hid the child's body from the man's view, investigators believe.

It was only after an hour that the woman sent a text to the child's godfather. She told him that she was going to an urgent care facility for headaches. She also browsed the internet looking for signs of having a seizure.

The woman reached a hospital and called the police. She didn't tell them about her dead daughter, and said she was having a "seizure of some kind".

The cops initially thought that the child died during Fowler's visit to the hospital. But later the autopsy revealed that the baby had been dead a long time before.

Detectives gathered ample proof to arrest Fowler, but she escaped to South Carolina, New Jersey and Florida. Later, she gave herself in on Monday.
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