Dumbfounded Shane Austin says the three-year-old only survived her terrifying ordeal because it s autumn and not the searing heat of a Queensland summer.
Le Smileys Early Learning Centre director Bianca Reynolds is hunkering down with her mother and sister at her home in Gracemere, in Queensland s Rockhampton region.
Nevaeh Austin s grandma Pamela Parker said she felt numb, mortified and hysterical when she found out the toddler was abandoned in a van in Gracemere, Rockhampton.
The distraught father of a toddler who was left in a hot van outside a childcare centre has opened up about his daughter as she fights for life in hospital.