Bail denied to dad after kid freed from hot car
A FATHER accused of leaving his son in a sweltering car was denied bail yesterday.
On Saturday afternoon, Sydney barber Issa Khadem was busy trimming hair on the hottest weekend of the year when he noticed a little boy crying in a sweltering car.
Mr Khadem saw a black Holden Astra parked on the Hume Hwy in the south-west Sydney suburb of Yagoona, with the distressed child locked inside.
“We were like, ‘Oh my God, do we break the window, are we allowed to do that?’ So we just rang the police straight away,” Mr Khadem told Nine News.
“He was crying, he had wet himself in the car, poor thing.”
Police arrived, smashed the window and immediately treated the boy for dehydration.
The father was later found drinking at a nearby pub, the Hume Hotel, and arrested.
He is behind bars in Bankstown, charged with leaving a child in a motor vehicle causing distress, neglecting a child in his care and resisting arrest.
When the boy’s mother arrived to pick her son up, police discovered the father had left his other son, a two-year-old boy, alone in his Yagoona home.
Sydney sweltered through its hottest September night on record on Saturday with temperatures struggling to drop below 25 degrees even at midnight.
Saturday was Sydney’s first ever 40-degree September day.
A Sydney mother has also been charged after a toddler was left in a car for about an hour at Hurstville during the weekend’s hot temperatures.