Rylee-Rose Peverill was left to roast for more than five hours as temperatures passed 50C in her mum’s Toyota Prado – while her mother Laura Rose Peverill and her boyfriend binge-watched Shameless on Netflix

A mum who left her three-year-old daughter to die in the back seat of her car on a scorching hot day while she watched Netflix with her boyfriend has been sentenced.

Laura Rose Peverill, 39, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of little Rylee-Rose Peverill and was jailed for seven years in Townsville Supreme Court on Friday.

The court heard that on the morning of November 27, 2020, Peverill drove to the supermarket in her Toyota Prado with her boyfriend of just a few months after dropping her other three other daughters off at school.

At about 9.50am, they returned to park the car in the driveway of Peverill’s home in Burdell in Townsville’s north. 

The pair collected the groceries from the 4WD but left Rylee-Rose buckled into her seat, before they went inside and binged watched episodes of Shameless for five hours.

Peverill (pictured) watched Netflix with her new boyfriend and did not discuss Rylee being left in the car during five hours watching Shameless

Rylee spent five hours and seven minutes locked inside the hot car, which was parked on a shade-less driveway.

She was not checked on once until her mother got in the car at 2.48pm for the afternoon school run for her other children and found Rylee slumped over in her seat. 

The temperature outside varied between 30C and 31.4C. The temperature inside the car, measured by experts two days later in similar weather, reached 51.5C.

Crown Prosecutor David Nardone said Rylee would have suffered headaches, intense thirst, heart stress, anxiety, delirium and convulsions and there was evidence of vomit in the car, reports the Townsville Bulletin. 

Peverill called paramedics who rushed Rylee to Townsville University Hospital where she couldn’t be revived.

In court on Friday, Rylee’s father read out a heartbreaking victim impact statement about his ‘bubbly, happy princess’ as his partner sat beside him in the witness box.

He said when he answered the call about Rylee his ‘world stopped turning’ and that when he raced to the hospital he was confronted with crying nurses and police officers, who advised him not to see Rylee in her that state.

He said later at her funeral he apologised to her for not being there to save her.

‘I would have moved mountains if I had been there,’ he said.

Rylee and her sisters were all from Peverill’s relationship with ex-husband Pete and the three older sisters are now in his care (Rylee and her three sisters pictured with father Pete) 

Mr Black said his ‘world stopped turning’ when he heard what had happened to Rylee

Peverill’s defence barrister said she had been treated for mental health issues for years and had a problem with alcohol but that she fully accepted she failed in her responsibility to Rylee.

She added Peverill had been subjected to a torrent of online abuse over the negligent nature of the crime. 

Justice David North handed down the seven year sentence and recommended she be housed in protective custody as he acknowledged she could be at risk from other inmates. 

She will be eligible for parole on July 3, 2025.

According to Kidsafe, more than 5,000 children are rescued each year in Australia after being left unattended in a car. 

Children left in hot vehicles are at risk of life-threatening heatstroke, dehydration, suffocation, organ damage and death.

The interior of a car can peak at 75C, regardless of whether or not the vehicle is in the sun or left in the shade.