Mom charged over one-year-old daughter’s hot car death

An Oregon mother has been charged with manslaughter after leaving her one-year-old daughter in a car for hours – causing the girl’s death. 

Police in Roseburg were called to the Evergreen Family Medicine clinic around 4:12pm on Thursday, where they found 21-month-old Remington Engler unconscious.

She was rushed to Mercy Medical Center by ambulance where she was later pronounced dead. 

The girl’s mother, 38-year-old Nicole Engler, told authorities that she thought she dropped her daughter off at daycare that morning before showing up for her job as a nurse practitioner at the practice. 

When she left work hours later, she found the girl blue in the back seat of the car and unresponsive. She rushed her into the medical center but her daughter could not be revived. 

Engler was taken into custody on a charge of second-degree manslaughter. If convicted, she could spend more than six years in prison. 

Engler’s 21-month-old daughter Remington died after being left in a hot car for hours outside of her work (above) in Roseburg, Oregon on Thursday 

She was booked into the Douglas County Jail, where she remained as of Friday afternoon. 

Temperatures in Roseburg were around 79 degrees at 4pm on Thursday, when Remington was found in the car.  

The Douglas County Major Crimes team is investigating Remington’s death.  

According to the group Kids and Cars, 17 children have died in hot cars this year. 

Engler, who is originally from Salt Lake City, moved to Roseburg more than four years ago, according to her clinic’s website. 

She got her nursing degree in 2005, and got her master’s in nursing four years later. 

Engler has worked in pediatrics, women’s health and family practice.