A passerby climbed through a stranger's sunroof to remove a crying child from a hot car Monday afternoon in Hingham, Massachusetts, police said. A criminal complaint has been filed against the child's mother.

It happened in the Whole Foods parking lot on Derby Street shortly after 2:30 p.m. Police said they were called for a report of a child left alone in a car. A couple who parked next to the car said they heard a child inside screaming for their mother. The windows were closed and the engine was off, but the sunroof was left open.

After the couple called 911, they said one of them climbed in through the sunroof to unlock the car and take the child out. When officers arrived, they said the child was hot and sweating. The child was placed in an air conditioned police cruiser.

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