A 6-month-old baby in Florida was discovered dead in a car Tuesday after the father forgot to drop her off at day care, police said.

Miami-Dade Police confirmed the girl was found at Doral Academy Preparatory School Tuesday afternoon after she had been left in a car seat for approximately nine hours.  

The baby, Rosalyn Ramos, was taken to Miami Children’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

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Police said the baby’s father, Lazaro Ramos, was supposed to have dropped her off at a daycare center about 9 a.m. Tuesday, but apparently forgot she was in the car and went about his day.

The father dropped one of his children off at the school and then drove to work and left the baby in the back seat of the car, police said. He reportedly told police it was not part of his routine to care for the baby. When he returned to pick his child up from the school, the baby was discovered and police were called to the scene.

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It was unclear where the car was parked during the day. Temperatures in Miami Tuesday reached 88 degrees.

Miami-Dade Police Detective Aida Fina-Milian called the incident a tragic accident, but told NBC News the investigation is ongoing. Ramos is currently in police custody. 

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A Connecticut mother is accused of abusing her 10-month-old baby and videorecording the incidents.

Police in West Haven, Conn., arrested Kellie Park, 20, last week after the baby’s father contacted authorities saying she texted him videos of her tormenting, berating and assaulting the infant, according to a police report.

In one video, Park is heard telling the baby to “eat stuff off the floor, this is what your dad wants me to do,” police said.

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Kellie Park is accused of tormenting her 10-month-old child and videotaping the incidents.

In another, the baby is seen screaming and crying in a high chair as Park asks if the infant is hungry, while throwing food at the child. Police say Park can be seen taking the baby from the high chair and putting the infant in a portable crib and shaking the crib, causing the child to fall out. She can be heard saying “shake it up” on the video.

Park was arrested June 20 and charged with third-degree assault, cruelty to persons, risk of injury and threatening.

Police said Park also sent separate text messages to the father.

The texts included “ill (expletive) break her face,” “ill beat her (expletive) face in” and “i love abusing this kid,” police said.

After seeing the videos and texts, West Haven detectives immediately took custody of the child, who was transported to a hospital for evaluation and then taken into care by the Department of Children and Families in Hartford, Conn.

In a statement to msnbc.com, DCF Commissioner Joette Katz said, "We are actively investigating this matter, and the child is no longer in the mother's care. In addition, we are working with the police in pursuit of this case."

DCF spokesman Gary Kleeblatt told msnbc.com that the first step when taking any child into their care is to determine if there is an appropriate relative to care for the child.

“If a parent is unable to care for a child safely, then we would look to see if another relative like the father or grandmother is appropriate,” Kleeblatt said. “If that’s not possible, we’ll look to see if we can identify a licensed foster home.” 

Officers had been called to Park's address earlier in the day because she attempted to kill herself, according to the police report.

Park is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail and is due back in court July 11. 

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Samantha Tomasini told a judge she hopes that prison will help her overcome drug addiction.

A California woman who was once accused along with her ex-boyfriend of trying to sell their 8-month-old daughter in a Wal-Mart parking lot for $25 asked a judge to send her to prison instead of giving her probation, The Monterey County Herald reported. 

Samantha Tomasini, 22, told the judge Wednesday that her emotional issues and drug addiction have made it hard for her to stick with court-ordered treatment programs.

She said she would wind up violating any new probation, NBC station KSBW in Salinas reported. 

The judge agreed and sentenced her to four years in prison. She originally faced up to six years, The Herald reported. 

Tomasini and her ex-boyfriend, Patrick Fousek, made national headlines when they were accused of trying to sell the infant to strangers for $25 in June 2010.   

Defense attorneys said Fousek, 40, was only joking when he made the offer. 

The Herald reported that Tomasini admitted to child endangerment charges after police found the child living in unsanitary conditions at the couple's apartment. 

Fousek is serving a six-year prison sentence after being found guilty of felony child endangerment in the Wal-Mart incident, KSBW reported.

The Herald reported that the judge and Tomasini's lawyer, Steve Liner, agreed that she had been under Fousek's sway at the time of her arrest. 

Tomasini agreed to serve probation in a plea deal, but left a live-in drug treatment program and was re-arrested last year for violation of probation. She admitted to using heroin while on probation after kicking her methamphetamine addiction, the paper reported. 

"She's a hard fit" for many rehab programs, Tomasini's lawyer Steve Liner told the paper. "She decided she'd just rather serve the time." 

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The Herald reported that Tomasini testified in Fousek's trial that she started using drugs again when the baby was 7 months old. Prosecutors said that Fousek put the child at risk when he failed to stop Tomasini from breast feeding after resuming her drug habit.

Blood tests didn't show traces of the drug in the child, The Herald reported. 

Liner said Tomasini could be released in just 16 months with time already served in a county jail and good behavior, the newspaper reported. KSBW reported that Tomasini hopes that prison will help her get clean and "just move on."

KSBW reported that the couple's daughter is being raised by a foster family.

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