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Authorities said the 7-month-old's parents are a doctor and a medical researcher at the university. Their names and the child's name have not been released.
On a day when the temperature reached the upper 90s, a woman spotted the baby, called 911 and broke the car window, police Capt. James Gieseke said. The child was pronounced dead at a hospital.
The child had been in the car for three hours, Gieseke said. It's believed the mother left the child in the back seat of the father's car, but that the father thought the mother had taken the child.
"There was a horrible, devastating mix-up as to who was going to take the child to day care," Gieseke said.
Details were still sketchy because the couple were too distraught to give complete statements, Gieseke said.
Jan Null, adjunct professor of meteorology at San Francisco State University, said the death was the 22nd in the U.S. this year involving a child left in a hot vehicle. The year's 23rd child death in a vehicle occurred only hours later in Ohio.
A child was found dead in a sweltering sport utility vehicle in Union Township, about 20 miles southeast of Cincinnati, police said.
Police have not said who found the child shortly in the parking lot of Glen Este Middle School. The names of the child and the child's parents were not released.
"We're working on a timeline right now to determine what exactly happened," said Union Township police Lt. Scott Gaviglia. "The parents are being very cooperative."
[Associated Press; by Jim Salter]
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