Two adults have been charged after a young boy was left sitting in a hot car on a sweltering summer day for an hour.
A seven-year-old was found by police in the back of a car in northern New South Wales on Wednesday after receiving a call from a concerned onlooker.
Witnesses told officers they saw the child dragged and kicked on the street by the 43-year-old man before he was allegedly left in the car.
Police will claim he was in the vehicle for 50 minutes.
Two adults have been charged after a young boy was left sitting in a hot car on a sweltering summer day for an hour (file picture)
The boy was found in the car on Fingal Street in Brunswick Heads, where temperatures reached a maximum of 27C on Wednesday.
Police spoke to other locals in the area, who not only say the boy was kicked and knocked to the ground before allegedly being left in the car, but was also the victim of another alleged incident.
They believe the boy was physically assaulted by the same man on Boxing Day at a nearby beach in the Byron Bay area.
The man and a woman returned to the car where the boy had allegedly been sitting for nearly an hour, and both were charged at Byron Bay Police Station.
He has been charged with leave child in motor vehicle causing emotional distress, leave child in motor vehicle thus impairing health, stalk/intimidate intend fear physical harm, occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault.
He was refused bail and will appear in Tweed heads Local Court Thursday.
The woman, 45, was also charged with leaving child in motor vehicle causing emotional distress, leaving child in motor vehicle thus impairing health, and stalk/intimidate intend fear physical harm.
She was granted bail and will face Byron Bay Local Court in January.
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