A 10-month-old baby girl died after being left for hours inside the back of her grandmother’s blistering hot car outside of a medical clinic where she worked, police said.
Little Scottie Gwyn Crowell was found still strapped in the backseat of the car by her grandma, Dr. Stacey Fazenbaker, at Owensboro Health Multicare in Madisonville, Kentucky on Aug. 13 — about eight hours after she was supposed to drop the baby off at daycare, according to police.
Temperatures reached 95 degrees that day, and peaked at 115 inside the car, WEHT reported.
Fazenbaker, 61, had offered to pick up the infant that morning and drive her to daycare. But when the Scottie’s father went to pick up the baby at 4 p.m., he was told by staff that she was never dropped off that morning, the Daily Mail reported.
The family quickly learned that Fazenbaker had instead gone straight to work — and forgotten the baby girl in the car.
Horrified, Fazenbaker “ran outside with some co-workers to get the child. But it was far too late by then,” Madisonville Police Major Jason McKnight told reporters.
“The grandmother had already got the child, and so the officers tried some lifesaving measures, but unfortunately it was too late for that.”
No charges have been filed as police continue to probe the tragedy.
Fazenbaker was tested for drugs and alcohol, but police don’t anticipate positive results.
“As the picture becomes clearer on how this could have possibly happened, there is a possibility charges are sought before the grand jury convenes,” McKnight said.
An autopsy will determine Scottie’s official cause of death.
Fazenbaker had just moved to Madisonville a year ago to be close to her daughter Sydni Crowell, 33, herself a local OB-GYN, the Daily Mail reported.
“We love you so much, our sweet baby girl,” Sydni’s sister Emmy Fazenbaker, a sports reporter for Middle Tennessee State University, posted in tribute on Facebook.
The Madisonville Police Department did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for additional information.
Scottie, her parents’ second child, was born on Sept. 20, 2025, via in vitro fertilization, according to the outlet.
Crowell began working at Baptist Health Deaconess in Madison in February 2025 after completing her residency at Mercy Hospital in St Louis.
