An Italian toddler has died after being left in a hot car by her father who had forgotten to drop her off at day care.
Doctors in the city of Ancona declared the 22-month-old dead, three days after the father returned from work to find her barely breathing in his car.
The man, a professor of veterinary medicine, told investigators that he had inexplicably thought he had left her at a nursery on the way to work.
Prosecutors are due to decide whether to charge him with manslaughter.
The mother appealed for understanding for her partner, named as Lucio Petrizzi.
She told Italian media that what had happened to him "could have happened to anyone".
"I want to shout to the entire world how much my companion loved his daughter. He is an exemplary father," said the mother.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13493266
Poor guy must be absolutely devastated.
