Kela Stanford, from Birmingham, was taken into custody on August 1 on a felony charge of leaving a child in a car.

Ke'Torrius Starkes Jr., 3, died after being left in a hot car for five hours in Birmingham, Ala. An Alabama woman was taken into custody following the death of a 3-year-old boy who police say was "forgotten" in a hot car for five hours, leading to his July 22 death.

A woman has been arrested in Alabama in connection with the death of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr., who died last week after a state-contracted worker left him unattended in a car for several hours in the sweltering summer heat.