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A mother whose toddler died after being left alone in a hot car for five hours will be eligible for parole in less than two years.
Laura Rose Peveril was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Queensland Supreme Court on Friday for the death of her three-year-old daughter in November 2020.
The court was told that Rylee Rose Black was left alone in the backseat of a locked car for more than five hours in the afternoon, as the interior temperature reached 51.5 degrees Celsius (about 124 degrees Fahrenheit), ABC reported.
The 39-year-old man from Townsville, Queensland pleaded guilty to manslaughter in April.
In closing arguments, prosecutor David Nardone told the court that the searing heat inside the 4WD was simply “insurmountable.”
A mother whose toddler died after being left alone in a hot car for five hours will be eligible for parole in less than two years.7 News Australia
He said Rylee would experience “suffering until a coma, and then death.”
The child was found unresponsive in the back of a Toyota Prado, with summer temperatures that day reaching over 31 degrees Celsius (about 87 degrees Fahrenheit).
Mr Nardone told the court that Peveril and her boyfriend at the time took the groceries, parked the Prado in the unshaded driveway and removed the groceries, but not Rylee.
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The pair then went inside and ironically watched a Netflix series called Shameless.
It was only when Peveril went to pick up his other children from school that he found Rylee vomiting and sitting in her seat.
He was rushed to the hospital where he died of heat stroke or failure of thermoregulation, with a body temperature of 41 degrees Celsius (about 105.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
In a victim impact statement, Rylee’s father, Peter Black, said his world was shattered when he received the call from the hospital.
“The world stopped spinning … my happy and cheerful princess is gone forever … can it be real, it’s ridiculous,” he said.
Mr Black said when he arrived at the hospital he was greeted by nurses and police officers who told him Rylee was in “no condition to be seen”, the Townsville Bulletin reported.
Mr Black spoke of the day of his daughter’s funeral where he saw her body and sang, ‘Twinkle, twinkle little star’ to her.
“I apologized to him for not being able to save him and I would have moved mountains if I was there,” he said.
Defense barrister Victoria Trafford-Walker told the court how Peveril had suffered from mental health and alcohol problems for years.
The court was told that Rylee Rose Black was left alone in the backseat of a locked car for more than five hours in the afternoon, as the interior temperature reached 51.5 degrees Celsius (about 124 degrees Fahrenheit).GoFundMe
She said that on the day Rylee died, Peveril was depressed because she was dealing with an eviction so she could live with her then-boyfriend.
“It had a profound and lasting effect on his life. She has lost her partnership with her boyfriend at the time, and now feels she deserves to go to jail,” Ms Trafford-Walker said.
“Although he was afraid of what might happen because of the nature of the offence.”
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