{"id":328869,"date":"2026-08-25T00:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328869\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:35:22","slug":"kentucky-doctor-left-her-baby-granddaughter-in-hot-car-to-die-while-she-worked-at-medical-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328869\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky doctor left her baby granddaughter in hot car to die while she worked at medical clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 10-month-old baby girl died after being left for hours inside the back of her grandmother\u2019s blistering hot car outside of a medical clinic where she worked, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Little Scottie Gwyn Crowell was found still strapped in the backseat of the car by her grandma, Dr. Stacey Fazenbaker, at Owensboro Health Multicare in Madisonville, Kentucky\u00a0on Aug. 13 \u2014 about eight hours after she was supposed to drop the baby off at daycare, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures reached 95 degrees that day, and peaked at 115 inside the car, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5x5wKr5t0M0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WEHT reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scottie Crowell, a 10-month-old baby girl, died after being left in a car in Kentucky.  Barnett Strother Funeral Home<\/p>\n<p>Fazenbaker, 61, had offered to pick up the infant that morning and drive her to daycare. But when the Scottie\u2019s father went to pick up the baby at 4 p.m., he was told by staff that she was never dropped off that morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-16061701\/scottie-crowell-hot-car-death-madisonville-kentucky.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Daily Mail reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The family quickly learned that Fazenbaker had instead gone straight to work \u2014 and forgotten the baby girl in the car.<\/p>\n<p>Horrified, Fazenbaker \u201cran outside with some co-workers to get the child. But it was far too late by then,\u201d Madisonville Police Major Jason McKnight told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe grandmother had already got the child, and so the officers tried some lifesaving measures, but unfortunately it was too late for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stacey Fazenbaker, 61, allegedly forgot to drop the infant off at daycare. Owensboro Health<\/p>\n<p>No charges have been filed as police continue to probe the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Fazenbaker was tested for drugs and alcohol, but police don\u2019t anticipate positive results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the picture becomes clearer on how this could have possibly happened, there is a possibility charges are sought before the grand jury convenes,\u201d McKnight said.<\/p>\n<p>The baby was found dead in a car outside of the Owensboro Health Multicare in Madisonville, Kentucky. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy will determine Scottie\u2019s official cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Fazenbaker had just moved to Madisonville a year ago to be close to her daughter Sydni Crowell, 33, herself a local OB-GYN,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-16061701\/scottie-crowell-hot-car-death-madisonville-kentucky.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Daily Mail reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love you so much, our sweet baby girl,\u201d Sydni\u2019s sister Emmy Fazenbaker, a sports reporter for Middle Tennessee State University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/emmy.fazenbaker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted in tribute on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Madisonville Police Department did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for additional information.<\/p>\n<p>Scottie, her parents\u2019 second child, was born on Sept. 20, 2025, via in vitro fertilization, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Crowell began working at Baptist Health Deaconess in Madison in February 2025 after completing her residency at Mercy Hospital in St Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 10-month-old baby girl died after being left for hours inside the back of her grandmother\u2019s blistering hot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[972,15476,123647,17877,9,11,10,58],"class_list":["post-328869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-doctors","tag-grandparents","tag-hot-car-deaths","tag-kentucky","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}