ST-JEROME, Que. — Quebec provincial police are investigating after a child less than a year old was found dead in a car.
The vehicle was parked near a daycare in Saint-Jerome, 60 kilometres north of Montreal.
Police say the child was not under the daycare's supervision at the time of the incident late Wednesday afternoon.
An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death.
The father reportedly left his home with his three children, dropped the older two off at another location and forgot his infant, who was less than a year old, in the back of the vehicle.
It was only at the end of the day that the father remembered his infant son was still in the car after he returned to the daycare on Des Prés Street to pick up the baby around 5:30 p.m., two police sources confirmed.
