Florida grandfather has been arrested and charged after he returned a rental car and employees later found his granddaughter — a toddler — in the backseat.According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, employees at Hertz car rental at Daytona Beach International Airport discovered the young child on Monday evening.
She was locked in the car, which had been returned about 45 minutes earlier to an unshaded parking lot. Teen hilariously squeaks after accidentally swallowing dog toy Airport deputies quickly responded and “arrived to find the employee carrying the child, whose face was warm and streaked with dried tears, but was breathing normally,” the sheriff’s office said.
The girl was checked by paramedics, and was determined to be fine.Police said that not long after the girl, who is under the age of two, was discovered, her mother called to say that her father had accidentally left her daughter in the rental car while he was babysitting.
Deputies said he had initially told the mother her daughter had been left at his home while he returned the car.David Towner, 62, of Port Orange was later charged with one count of child neglect and transported to the Volusia County Branch Jail.