A shocking video has emerged today that shows a toddler being rescued by police who found her locked in a boiling hot car.
The little girl was soaked with sweat and was screaming when officers in Bergen County, New Jersey, started to break the windows to save her.
She was spotted locked inside the vehicle by a supermarket manager. Police Officier Rich Carrion explained how he saw the girl “sweating profusely and crying” before he was able to break her out.
Incredibly, her mother Chaeyoung Lim-Kim returns moments into the video with a shopping trolley stacked high with food and weakly says “sorry” before another officer shouts back: “No sorry, she could have died.”
Rafeal Rodrigues witnesses the incident and told ABC 7 news he thought the woman had done this previously.
“I believe this is not the first time that she's done this, because she took her older child with her that was maybe 4 or 5 years older,” he explained. “And the fact that she left the four windows cracked open.
“She knew what she was doing when she did it, and this time she got caught.
Chaeyoung Lim-Kim has been charged with child endangerment