Aimee Cotton is accused of leaving a two-year-old boy and a one-year-old girl unattended for three hours in a car (Picture: Dukes County Sheriff’s Office)
A babysitter has been busted for allegedly leaving a toddler in a car unattended for hours until he died at a US island known for being an affluent summer colony.
Aimee Cotton, 41, called the Dukes County Regional Emergency Communications Center to say that the two-year-old child she was babysitting ‘was not breathing and turning blue’, according to the Cape & Islands District Attorney’s Office.
‘Upon the arrival of first responders, they found the Ms Cotton preforming CPR on the young toddler in the 2nd row passenger seat area,’ stated the office on Thursday.
First responders took over lifesaving efforts on March 13 and rushed the young toddler to the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital emergency room. He was then airlifted by Boston Medflight in critical condition to Massachusetts General Hospital.
Aerial droen photo Oak Bluffs, Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
Martha’s Vineyard is known as an affluent summer colony (Picture: Getty Images)
Also in the vehicle for three hours was a one-year-old girl, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Daily Mail.
Cotton, of Martha’s Vineyard, was charged with reckless endangerment of a child and arraigned in the Edgartown District Court on March 14. She was held on a $2,800 bail with conditions of release.
Five days later, the toddler died at the hospital from injuries he suffered in the vehicle. He was from West Tisbury and his mother teaches at Oak Bluffs Elementary School.
Cotton’s charges have been upgraded to manslaughter ‘following a thorough investigation into her involvement of leaving a young child unattended in her vehicle that was in her care’, stated the district attorney’s office.
She is being held on a $21,000 bail with GPS tracking and is scheduled to appear at the district court on April 3 for a probably cause hearing.
‘District Attorney Galibois’s thoughts are with the family and loved ones of the young toddler during this incredibly difficult time,’ stated the agency.
Martha’s Vineyard is an island south of Cape Cod. Its community of Vineyard Haven was named as having the most expensive real estate among America’s towns last year by LendingTree.
Cotton was charged more than a year-and-a-half after a Florida babysitter was arrested after leaving a 10-month-old child she was caring for to die in a hot car.
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