An Illinois woman was arrested this week after a nearly four month investigation into the death of her 13-month-old baby girl.

The Bloomington Police Department said that Quvonnay Collins, 24, brought the toddler to Carle Bromenn Medical Center on August 25 just before 1 a.m. “with no signs of life.”

An autopsy conducted the next day determined the girl died from “hyperthermia due to environmental heat exposure,” and investigators determined that she’d been left unattended in a vehicle for an extended period of time.

Collins was a arrested on Wednesday and charged with involuntary manslaughter of a family member, obstructing justice, destroying evidence, and endangering the life of a child causing death.

Associate Judge Brian Goldrick on Friday released Collins from jail pending trial but ordered her not to leave Illinois or provide care for any child under 18, WEEK reported. Her arraignment is scheduled for January 10.

Agencies that monitor hot car deaths have not updated their statistics since last month, but this death would appear to be the 40th such death in the United States this year, the most since 2017 and 2018 when 53 children died in hot cars.

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[Featured image Quv0nnay Collins/Burlington Police Department]