 WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 10-month-old Kansas girl died after being strapped for more than two hours inside a sweltering car, and police arrested a foster parent who said he'd forgotten about her until something on TV jogged his memory, an official said Friday. The girl's distraught maternal grandmother, Cindy Poe of Topeka, Kansas, went to police headquarters Friday demanding to see her granddaughter's body and to find out where her other two grandchildren had been taken. Authorities said Friday they have arrested... (Associated Press) 
 
 The 29-year-old man was booked on suspicion of aggravated endangerment but has not been charged, said Lt. Todd Ojile of the Wichita Police Department. "I want to assure Kansans that we are doing everything we can to uphold our agency's mission to protect children," Department for Children and Families Secretary Phyllis Gilmore said in a statement. The DCF said an inspection would be conducted of all foster homes associated with TFI, the contractor involved in placing the girl in the home on South Topeka. TFI spokesman Brenden Long said in an e-mailed statement that the contractor is deeply saddened by the death of the child and is fully cooperating with the investigation and the Department for Children and Families. 
 
 Long said in the e-mail that TFI would be personally contacting each of its sponsored foster families and providing them with heat safety tips. 
 
 I am absolutely devastated by this childs death that should have been prevented, Gilmore said in a news release. The agency's contract with the state was not renewed in 2013, but TFI had still been allowed to sponsor some licensed foster homes. On Friday, The Kansas Department for Children and Families suspended all future child placements with its former foster care contractor, TFI Family Services, pending the outcome of an investigation. The foster couple had been trying to adopt the 10-month-old girl they had cared for nearly all her life. They also had three other foster children, ages 3, 5 and 18; and had two adopted children, ages 5 and 7. At times, different foster children lived at the home, the neighbors said. Emergency dispatchers got a call at 6:41 p.m. Thursday, and the girl was pronounced dead at the scene a few minutes later. According to Ojile, investigators learned that the child had been left strapped into a car seat in the rear of a four-door sedan with closed tinted windows that had been parked in front of the house for 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Two men, ages 29 and 26, live at the house, and they are foster parents, Ojile said. The investigation found that the girl was picked up from the baby sitter around 4 p.m. Thursday and brought home, where she was "somehow forgotten" in the back seat of the car in Wichita, where temperatures were around 90 degrees. Another child also had been in the vehicle but did not remain in the car. The second man was in the backyard of the residence and thought all the children were downstairs in the home, Ojile said. Investigators hope to present their findings to prosecutors early next week, who will decide whether to file charges against Jackson. According to the nonprofit child safety group KidsAndCars.org, 18 children have died in hot cars this year in the United States, including a Georgia boy whose father is charged with murder on suspicion of intentionally leaving the 22-month-old in a hot car last month as he went to work. The Kansas City, Missouri-based group said 10 children have died in hot cars in Kansas since 2000.
– A baby in Kansas is dead after being left in the back seat of a car for two hours, reports AP. A male foster parent, 29, has been arrested, but not charged, on suspicion of aggravated endangerment in the death of the 10-month-old girl. Authorities say Seth Jackson picked up the child from the baby-sitter, returned home, and went inside the house with another 5-year-old child. Two hours later, he said something on TV jogged his memory. By the time he and his partner—who faces no charges—raced out to the vehicle on the 90-degree day, the girl was dead. The two men had cared for the baby nearly all her life and planned to adopt her, reports the Wichita Eagle. She had been placed in the foster system after being born in Topeka with drugs in her system. The couple also were caring for the girl's two older sisters, along with four other children. “These kids were their life,” says a neighbor. “That’s what they lived for. You could tell.” The girl's maternal grandmother is angry and demanding to know where her other two grandkids are. "I want answers," Cindy Poe tells AP. "I want to know why my grandbaby was in that car."