Web produced by: Ian Preuth, Neil RelyeaCincinnati police are investigating the death of an 11-month-old baby girl found inside a minivan in Price Hill around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.
Police say the baby's mother, Dr. Jodie Edwards, left the infant girl inside the van in a parking lot on the campus of Cincinnati Christian University.
Police say the baby was discovered by her mother as she was leaving work this afternoon.
Earlier investigators had said they believed the girl had been left inside the van for several hours.
Police now say the child was still in her car seat when her mother reported for work at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
9News was told by a school official that Edwards had a recent change in her daycare routine and had not realized her daughter was still in the van when she parked it.
Edwards is a faculty member at Cincinnati Christian University where she teaches counseling.
9News was told the first day back for the school's faculty members was last Friday.
This Saturday marks the first anniversary of a tragedy reminiscent of what happened this afternoon at Cincinnati Christian University.
Former assistant principal Brenda Nesselroad-Slaby's two-year old daughter, Cecilia Slaby, died after being trapped for eight-hours inside a hot SUV outside Glen Este Middle School.
The temperature that day was up to 100 degrees Farenheit.
Clermont County prosecutors decided not to prosecute Nesselroad-Slaby.
The West Clermont school board agreed to allowing her to retire on disability, or pay her salary into next year if that failed.
A prayer vigil is being planned following Wednesday's tragedy.
If Wednesday's death is ruled hyperthermia it will be the first child death of its kind in Ohio this year.
But it would also be the 29th in the United States this year.
According to a researcher at San Francisco State University, with an afternoon temperature of 90 degrees, the inside air temperature of the vehicle could have exceeded 135 degrees Farenheit.
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