A Toronto woman made a brief appearance in court Friday following the death of a child who was left for hours in a hot car Thursday.Zeljna Kosovac, 50, is charged with criminal negligence causing death.The four-year-old boy died after he was left in a red Hyundai parked near Burnhamthorpe and Mills Rds. for about four hours on a day with a high of 26 C.RELATED STORY:Child dies after being left in car in extreme heat in EtobicokeToronto police said Kosovac was a caregiver for the child.Dressed in a grey T-shirt, her dark hair freely falling on her shoulders, Kosovac kept her gaze straight ahead during the midday hearing at the College Park courthouse.Kosovac was granted bail and left the court flanked by officers, putting on dark sunglasses but not speaking as she left the building. Two men accompanying Kosovac also maintained silence through the bustling exit, hailing a cab outside amid cameras of waiting journalists.Residents of a nearby apartment building told the Star that the boy was found unconscious around 1 p.m. by a superintendent, who smashed in one of the car’s windows to rescue him.Paramedics rushed the boy to the hospital in critical condition, but he later died.A makeshift vigil has been set up for the boy by the parking lot where he was located. General contractor Roger Reynolds and his co-worker Lisa Taschuk stopped by the vigil. All day yesterday they were working in the adjacent building and passed by the parking lot where the car was parked several times — on their way to get coffee and lunch. They didn’t notice anything was amiss until the emergency crews arrived. “We knew something wasn’t right, with the brigade of emergency vehicles coming down the road,” Taschuk said. “You just don’t expect something like this to happen, but every year it seems to happen.”“The baby seat was sitting right here,” Reynolds said, gesturing to the sidewalk, steps away from the vigil. “When I ...
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