That detail would matter later.
Far more than it should have.
The two adults had been carrying her diaper bag, an insurance card, and family paperwork in the front of the vehicle.
So the police made an assumption.
At first, they believed the child belonged to them.
The initial report listed her as their daughter.
No one realized yet that the woman in the passenger seat was actually the driver’s sister—not the child’s mother.
The girl survived.
The adults didn’t.
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