{"id":325275,"date":"2026-06-30T22:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325275\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:51:09","slug":"toddler-found-dead-in-car-in-plantation-mourned-as-investigation-continues-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325275\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler found dead in car in Plantation mourned as investigation continues \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A toddler who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/child-death-investigation-plantation\/3827254\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/child-death-investigation-plantation\/3827254\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">found dead inside a car in Plantation<\/a> is being mourned as the investigation into his death was continuing.<\/p>\n<p>Plantation police and firefighters had responded to the parking lot of A World of Discovery Academy Monday evening after receiving a report of a deceased child inside a car, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics confirmed that the child had died.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Novoa, the owner and director of the daycare, said the father arrived to pick up his 23-month-old son and suddenly realized he had never actually dropped the child off earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The dad arrived to pick up his child and then he realized that the child was in the car and he was already unfortunately dead,&#8221; Novoa said Tuesday. &#8220;He opened the door and closed the door and then when I said &#8216;can I help you with something?&#8217; he opened the door and that&#8217;s when I went to check on the child and unfortunately found out that the child was deceased.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA police investigation continues after a 23-month-old was found dead in a car outside a preschool in Plantation. NBC6&#8217;s Briana Nespral spoke to experts.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The father was screaming and the mother was also overcome with emotion when she arrived, Novoa said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was in pain, he was in a lot of pain,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was a tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Novoa said she&#8217;s known the family for around six years, and that there are two other children, ages 6 and 4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The family, very sweet family,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Very loving and caring family\u2026very loving parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The death is at least the third in Florida this year involving a child left in a car.<\/p>\n<p>Police haven&#8217;t released the child&#8217;s identity or said whether the father may face charges but officials said an investigation was underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A toddler who was found dead inside a car in Plantation is being mourned as the investigation into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,5074],"class_list":["post-325275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-plantation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}