3-year-old dies inside hot car

ATLANTA -- Police have charged a mother with murder after she left her 3-year-old daughter with Down syndrome strapped in a sweltering car on the first day of her new job.

Ashante Burgess died Wednesday shortly after arriving at a hospital, where doctors said her temperature was 108 degrees.

Police also charged Nakia Burgess, 28, with cruelty to children. The woman's attorney, Phinia Aten, said her client left Ashante in the car because she couldn't find affordable day care.

Burgess found her daughter unconscious around noon, less than 90 minutes after arriving to work as a transcriptionist.