Colorado girl smashes window to escape 150-degree car, grandfather charged

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Police say a 7-year-old girl broke a passenger-side window with a mallet to escape a parked vehicle outside a Colorado Walmart after temperatures inside reportedly exceeded 150 degrees.

A Colorado man is facing child abuse charges after authorities say he left his 7-year-old granddaughter alone inside a parked vehicle during a shopping trip, forcing the child to break a window to escape dangerous heat that officials estimated exceeded 150 degrees inside the car, according to Denver7.com. The incident happened July 6 outside a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Thornton, north of Denver.

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