The Perry woman whose seven-month-old daughter died of heat exposure last June after being left in a minivan all day has resigned from her job. Kari Engholm was acquitted a few weeks ago of child endangerment and manslaughter for forgetting to drop her daughter off at the babysitter and leaving baby Clare in her car seat all day. Engholm was acting at C-E-O of the Dallas County Hospital at the time of the incident, and she has now submitted her resignation from the post. In a memo to the hospital’s board of trustees, Engholm says “after much thought and prayer” she’s decided to resign as “the grief and sadness” she feels is “overwhelming at times.” She says while a trial judge ruled Clare’s death was an accident, “the sense of loss is tremendous” and she “does not feel prepared to enter the workforce.”Engholm closes the memo by saying she is uncertain as to what the future holds for her family, she says she’s learned that peace and happiness are “fragile and precious.”
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