FATHER CHARGED AFTER 3-YEAR-OLD ALONE IN HOT CAR DIES

Police have laid charges against the father of a three-year-old Ontario boy who died after being left in a hot car last week. Halton regional police say 37-year-old Shaun Pennell of Burlington, Ont., faces one count of criminal negligence causing death and one count of failing to provide the necessaries of life. Police have said officers got a call on May 23 from a “hysterical” man, indicating that a child was in a vehicle and was not breathing. They said the boy was outside a grey Ford Escape when emergency crews arrived and paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. Police said last week that an autopsy revealed that the “preliminary cause of death” was hyperthermia. Data from The Weather Network indicates temperatures reached 26 C in Burlington that day.