Alicia Reid was on her lunch break from her job as an assistant teacher in Connecticut on Wednesday, and was making a phone call in her car when she heard the ‘desperate’ cries of a baby nearby in the garage.
Concerned by what she heard, she decided to check around to find the source – and was shocked to discover that the cries were coming from an infant, stuck alone in one of the surrounding cars.
“Something told me to just get up and look in the cars around you…I looked through a car window, and that’s when I saw the baby…all by himself with the windows rolled up, kicking and screaming,” she said.
When she wasn’t able to get into the car to free the tot herself, Alicia called emergency services who arrived on the scene along with a team of firefighters. The team spent several minutes trying to get unlock the car before eventually resorting to breaking the window to rescue the child.
An eye witness observed that the child was “definitely hot” to the touch and “had been crying a while and under distress”.
It later emerged that the four-month-old boy was the son of 46-year-old Hiroko Kurihara, who was working out at a nearby gym at the time the child was discovered. She has since been taken into custody and charged with risk of injury to a child and leaving a child unattended in a car.
