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Mother Charged with Child Endangerment
Wednesday , June 11, 2008 Posted: 07:42 PM
MCALLEN - A mother was charged with one count of child endangerment. Benita Cabrera's bond was set at $10,000.
Police say she left her 2-month-old baby in a car outside a McAllen PetSmart. The child was taken to the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.
NEWSCHANNEL 5 spoke to a doctor about how staying in a hot car affects the body.
"The temperature will quickly go to 120 or 130 and get even hotter than that, so pretty much your body's cooling system can't keep up with that heat," explains Dr. Roland Dominguez of the Harlingen Pediatric Clinic.
"The time for a child... really within about 10 or 15 minutes, they'll start going through those changes. And once they're not able to sweat off and keep their body cool, the temperature inside them rises very quickly."
Dominguez says, "All of a sudden your temperature will start to rise past 102, 103, 104. And once you get beyond 106, basically the intense heat starts shutting down your kidneys and it starts affecting your heart."
He adds, "A lot of people will have false security. It's cloudy and maybe their temperature is only 85 and somehow it's not dangerous. But it still can be dangerous. It just won't happen quite as fast."
Link (http://www.newschannel5.tv/2008/6/11/992752/Mother-Charged-with-Child-Endangerment)
Mother Charged with Child Endangerment
Wednesday , June 11, 2008 Posted: 07:42 PM
MCALLEN - A mother was charged with one count of child endangerment. Benita Cabrera's bond was set at $10,000.
Police say she left her 2-month-old baby in a car outside a McAllen PetSmart. The child was taken to the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.
NEWSCHANNEL 5 spoke to a doctor about how staying in a hot car affects the body.
"The temperature will quickly go to 120 or 130 and get even hotter than that, so pretty much your body's cooling system can't keep up with that heat," explains Dr. Roland Dominguez of the Harlingen Pediatric Clinic.
"The time for a child... really within about 10 or 15 minutes, they'll start going through those changes. And once they're not able to sweat off and keep their body cool, the temperature inside them rises very quickly."
Dominguez says, "All of a sudden your temperature will start to rise past 102, 103, 104. And once you get beyond 106, basically the intense heat starts shutting down your kidneys and it starts affecting your heart."
He adds, "A lot of people will have false security. It's cloudy and maybe their temperature is only 85 and somehow it's not dangerous. But it still can be dangerous. It just won't happen quite as fast."
Link (http://www.newschannel5.tv/2008/6/11/992752/Mother-Charged-with-Child-Endangerment)