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A mother whose young son died after being left alone in a hot car for five hours will be eligible for parole in less than two years.
Laura Rose Peverill was sentenced by the Queensland Supreme Court to seven years in prison on Friday for the death of her three-year-old daughter in November 2020.
The court was told that Rylee Rose Black was left alone in the back seat of a closed car for more than five hours in broad daylight, as internal temperatures reached 51.5 degrees Celsius (about 124 degrees Fahrenheit), ABC reported.
The 39-year-old from Townsville, Queensland, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in April.
In his closing arguments, prosecutor David Nardone told the court that the scorching temperatures inside the 4×4 were simply “not survivable”.
A mother whose young son died after being left alone in a hot car for five hours will be eligible for parole in less than two years.7 News Australia
He said Rylee would have experienced “suffering to the point of coma and then death.”
The boy was found unconscious inside the back of the Toyota Prado, with summer temperatures that day reaching more than 31 degrees Celsius (approximately 87 degrees Fahrenheit).
Nardone told the court that Peverill and her boyfriend at the time picked up food, parked the Prado on an unshaded road and removed the food, but not Rylee.
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The couple then went inside and ironically watched a Netflix series called Shameless.
Only when Peverill went to pick up her other children from school did she discover Rylee covered in vomit and slumped in her seat.
She was rushed to the hospital, where she died of heat stroke or thermoregulatory failure, with a body temperature of 41 degrees Celsius (approximately 105.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
In a victim impact statement, Rylee’s father, Peter Black, said his world was shattered when he received a call from the hospital.
“The world stopped turning… my happy, bubbly princess was gone forever… she could be real, it didn’t make sense,” she said.
Black said when he arrived at the hospital he was met by nurses and police officers who told him Rylee was “in no condition to be seen”, the Townsville Bulletin reported.
Black spoke of the day of his daughter’s funeral, where he saw her body and sang “Twinkle, twinkle little star” to her.
“I apologized for not being able to save her and I would have moved mountains if I had been there,” he said.
Defense lawyer Victoria Trafford-Walker told the court Peverill had suffered from mental health and alcohol problems for many years.
The court was told that Rylee Rose Black was left alone in the back seat of a closed car for more than five hours in broad daylight, as internal temperatures reached 51.5 degrees Celsius (approximately 124 degrees Fahrenheit).GoFundMe
She said the day Rylee died, Peverill was stressed because she was dealing with moving so she could move in with her then-boyfriend.
“It has had a profound and lasting impact on his life. She has lost her relationship with her then boyfriend and now even feels she deserves to go to prison,” Ms Trafford-Walker said.
“Although he is afraid of what could happen due to the nature of the crime.”
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