Girl, 2, Dies When Left Alone in Hot Day Care Center Van

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A 2-year-old girl in Georgia died June 20 after being left in a locked van for two hours in 90-plus degree temperatures.

Now, ABC News reports, the owner of a day care center and two of her employees face charges of cruelty to children and manslaughter.

According to the network, Jazmin Green died just three months after Marlo's Magnificent Early Learning Center in Jonesboro, Ga., was cited for violating a Georgia law that requires vehicles be checked after trips "to assure that no child remains on the vehicle."

Marlo Fannings, the owner of the center, was arrested along with two employees -- her daughter Quantabia Hopkins and a teenager whose name has not been released. ABC reports the specific charges were second-degree cruelty to children, involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct.

Children at Fannings' center had just returned from a trip to Chuck E. Cheese's. Green was left in the van while everyone else went back to the center.

Officer John K. Schneller of the Clayton County Police Department tells ABC Hopkins realized at approximately 3:30 p.m. that Green was not in the center. She had been sitting in the van for almost two hours. The temperature outside was was 93 degrees.

"Hopkins went into the parking lot and found Jazmin still in her car seat inside the van," Schneller tells the network. The toddler was non-responsive and didn't appear to be breathing.

"They just kept saying she fell asleep between the seats, and they di! dn't rea lize she was gone," the girl's mother, April McAlister, tells ABC. "I just don't understand how they can do that to my baby."

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