Attorney: Mom of Roseburg baby left in hot car distraught
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) – An attorney for a woman who left her toddler daughter in the car while she went to her job as a pediatric nurse practitioner says she didn’t realize she had left child behind and is distraught at her mistake.
Defense attorney David Terry says in a letter released Thursday that 38-year-old Nicole Engler, of Roseburg, first asked to be allowed to kill herself and tore out clumps of her hair when she realized what she had done.
Engler’s daughter, 21-month-old Remington, died in the June 21 incident.
Engler faces a charge of second-degree manslaughter.
Terry makes the statements in a two-page letter to fellow defense attorneys, asking for their help in persuading prosecutors to drop the case against Engler.
