OSBI: Baby Found Dead After Being Left In Car For At Least 9 Hours

Special agents with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) are now looking into the death of a 3-month-old baby girl in Geronimo, Oklahoma.

Agents said the child, Mame Neta Attocknie, was found dead after being left in the back seat of a vehicle for at least nine hours on Tuesday.

The baby was in the custody of her foster parents. Agents said the foster father failed to drop off Attocknie at the daycare Tuesday morning, after he took his son to school. The foster father, who works a night shift, went home and then to bed. 

After work at about 4:30 p.m., agents said the foster mother went to the daycare and discovered that Attocknie was not there. She called her husband to check on the child.  Minutes before, agents said the foster father sent his teenage son to the local Dollar General in the foster father’s vehicle where the child was strapped into a car seat.  Both foster parents rushed to the Dollar General and found Attocknie dead inside the vehicle. 

Police and medical personal were called to the scene.  OSBI special agents spent the night interviewing foster family members and processing the vehicle. 

No one has been arrested. The OSBI has not released the foster parents' names.