FL Mother Arrested After 1-Year-Old Girl Dies In Sanford Hot Car – Left 7 Hours While Working At “iQ Power”

SEMINOLE COUNTY, FL. (THECOUNT) — Kailyn Pollard, has been identified as the Sorrento mother charged in her 1-year-old daughter’s hot car death, officials from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said.

Pollard, 29, of Sorrento, was charged with negligent manslaughter Friday, after leaving her young child in a vehicle for hours as she worked at, “iQ Power.”

Sanford experienced record high temperatures Friday. The high was 96 degrees, two degrees hotter than the previous record high on that date, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne.

The toddler, Kit Noelle Pollard, was found at 4:40 p.m. at a Sanford Wawa location on State Road 46, according to the Seminole County Fire Department.

Officials said she showed no vital signs and was pronounced dead from cardiac arrest.

According to Pollard’s arrest report, Kit was left in the car from 9am to 4pm while Pollard was at work at iQ Power. The report states that Pollard, who would normally drop her daughter off at a local day care, failed to do so Friday. Authorities said Pollard told them that she didn’t notice her daughter’s body until after she had gotten back in her car after work, went to a nearby Olive Garden to pick up food and then stopped at Wawa to fuel the car. Around 4:30 p.m., Pollard “ultimately became aware that her daughter was in the back seat” when she got out to put gas in the car, according to the report. source

It’s unclear if Pollard was planning to go by her daughter’s day care as well.

Pollard was taken to Central Florida Regional Hospital due to extreme anxiety, deputies said. They said she was uncooperative with the investigation and requested an attorney.

Pollard is being held at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility on $20,000 bond. Her next court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 23.