A 46-year-old Florida woman has been charged after leaving a 10-month-old girl that she was babysitting in a 133-degree car for hours.
According to investigators, at approximately 8:00 AM on Wednesday morning, Rhonda Jewell picked up a 10-month-old infant from the child’s mother’s residence in north Macclenny in Baker County, Florida.
Deputies say that Rhonda has been the infant’s babysitter on occasions since June of this year.
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Rhonda drove to another residence in south Macclenny, where she would also babysit other children.
Rhonda arrived and entered the residence, leaving the infant in the vehicle.
It wasn’t until the infant’s mother arrived around 1:00 PM to pick up her child that Rhonda realized the infant was left in the vehicle.
The infant was transported to Fraser Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced deceased.
Rhonda Jewell was subsequently arrested and booked into the Baker County Detention Center.
Jewell made an initial appearance Thursday morning. Her bond was set at $25,000 with GPS monitoring upon release.
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“I am asking my community to respect the privacy of the victim’s family and to please join me in prayer for the family and everyone involved. Each of us are given the gift of life every morning we wake up and every evening when we finish our day, we are blessed if our family is safe and healthy. In the blink of an eye, our world can be turned upside down. Please be mindful of this when trying to understand the tragedy that took place in our small town yesterday,” said Baker County Sheriff Scotty Rhoden.
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