Rylee-Rose Peverill had to roast for more than five hours as temperatures rose above 50 degrees Celsius in her mother’s Toyota Prado – while her mother Laura Rose Peverill and her boyfriend binge-watched Shameless on Netflix
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A mother who left her three-year-old daughter to die in the back seat of her car on a sweltering day while watching Netflix with her boyfriend has been convicted.
Laura Rose Peverill, 39, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of little Rylee-Rose Peverill and was sentenced to seven years in prison in the Townsville Supreme Court on Friday.
The court heard that on the morning of November 27, 2020, Peverill drove to the supermarket with her boyfriend of just a few months in her Toyota Prado, after dropping her other three daughters off at school.
At about 9.50am they returned to park the car in the driveway of Peverill’s home in Burdell in north Townsville.
The pair took the groceries out of the 4WD, but left Rylee-Rose strapped into her seat, before heading inside and watching five hours of episodes of Shameless.
Rylee-Rose (pictured with her biological father Pete Black) was left in a hot car by her mother
Peverill (pictured) watched Netflix with her new boyfriend and didn’t discuss Rylee sitting in the car for five hours watching Shameless
Rylee spent five hours and seven minutes locked in the hot car, which was parked in a shadeless driveway.
She wasn’t checked once until her mother got into the car for afternoon school for her other children at 2:48 p.m. and found Rylee slumped over in her seat.
The temperature outside varied between 30C and 31.4C. The temperature in the car, measured by experts two days later in similar weather, reached 51.5 degrees Celsius.
Crown prosecutor David Nardone said Rylee suffered from headaches, intense thirst, cardiac stress, anxiety, delirium and convulsions and there was evidence of vomit in the car, police said. Townsville Bulletin.
Peverill called paramedics who rushed Rylee to Townsville University Hospital, where she could not be revived.
In court on Friday, Rylee’s father read out a heartbreaking victim impact statement about his “bubbly, happy princess” as his partner sat next to him in the witness box.
He said that when he answered the call about Rylee, his “world stopped spinning” and that when he ran to the hospital, he was confronted by crying nurses and police officers, who advised him not to see Rylee in that state.
He later said at her funeral that he apologized to her for not being there to save her.
“I would have moved mountains if I had been there,” he said.
Rylee and her sisters all came from Peverill’s relationship with ex-husband Pete and the three older sisters are now in his care (Rylee and her three sisters pictured with father Pete)
Mr Black said his “world stopped spinning” when he heard what happened to Rylee
Peverill’s lawyer said she had been treated for mental health problems for years and had an alcohol problem, but fully accepted that she had failed in her responsibility to Rylee.
She added that Peverill had been subjected to a barrage of online abuse due to the negligent nature of the crime.
Judge David North imposed the seven-year prison sentence and recommended she be placed in protective custody, recognizing she could be in danger from other inmates.
She will be eligible for parole on July 3, 2025.
According to Kidsafe, more than 5,000 children are rescued in Australia every year after being left unattended in a car.
Children left in hot vehicles are at risk of life-threatening heatstroke, dehydration, suffocation, organ damage and death.
The interior of a car can reach a temperature of 75 degrees Celsius, regardless of whether the vehicle is in the sun or in the shade.