An Oklahoma family is mourning the loss of their two 2-year-old daughters, who were discovered dead in a car last week after a caretaker allegedly failed to drop them off at daycare.
According to KFOR, cops performing a welfare check discovered the 2-year-old twins, Ariel and Avery, unresponsive in a car that had stopped on a street in a community outside Norman, Okla.
Marshall Suter, the kids’ father, told KFOR that a trusted family member was supposed to deliver them but forgot.
“They were the finest girls the world had ever seen. “It hurts because the girls were so loved and cared for,” Suter told the newspaper.
According to KFOR, another family member described the occurrence as “truly tragic” and “has been very hard on the family.”
“I hope this will at least show people that it wasn’t intentional and was truly an accident,” the family member told the publication. “This family would just like some peace in this difficult and heavy time.”
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One of Suter’s cousins set up a GoFundMe account to help the family afford funeral expenses, describing last Thursday’s devastating announcement as “the most traumatic news any parent could ever receive.”
“No one truly understands the pain of losing a child until you’ve gone through it,” the campaign states. “I know what this mother and father are going through. We would be grateful and appreciative of any assistance received, and may God bless you all for your generosity.”
According to the Norman Police Department, both babies were “deceased at the time” officers arrived on the scene. According to the agency, the twin girls “were accidentally left in the vehicle for an extended period” before being discovered by a family member.
“The medical examiner will determine the cause of death,” the police statement said. “The investigation into the incident is ongoing.”