A mother accused of leaving her baby boy in a hot car has been banned from visiting the family home as her son remains in a critical condition in hospital.<\/p>\n
32-year-old Kaija Millar is accused of locking her 14-month-old son, Easton, in the car while she played the pokies in Melbourne's south-west.<\/p>\n
Victoria Police claim the infant was left in the Brook Hotel car park in Point Cook for more than two hours, as temperatures reached 33 degrees outside.<\/p>\n
It's alleged she checked on the 14-month-old a number of times by peering in through the window.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to a car parked near the Brook Hotel just after 3pm on Wednesday, finding a 14-month-old boy unresponsive and in critical condition.<\/p>\n
A 32-year-old Gladstone Park woman was charged with negligently causing serious injury and reckless conduct endanger life, and was bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates' Court on January 23.<\/p>\n
She's now also been banned from returning to the family's Gladstone Park home.<\/p>\n
Sources close to the family told 7NEWS the 32-year-old hid her gambling problem from her husband and friends.<\/p>\n
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They say the woman drove more than 35km from her home in Melbourne's northwest to Point Cook to gamble up to three times a week.<\/p>\n
Easton's father has remained by his son's bedside.<\/p>\n
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