I don't think this was an accident.

Donations Help Bail Out Oregon Mom Charged With Manslaughter After 1-Year-Old Dies in Hot Car

Donations from strangers helped bail out of mother who was charged with manslaughter after leaving her 1-year-old daughter in a hot car in Oregon.

Nicole Engler, a pediatric nurse, was given a $50,000 bail when she was charged with second-degree manslaughter after accidentally forgetting her daughter was in the backseat as she drove herself to work last Thursday.

She didn’t discover her unresponsive daughter, Remy, until after 4 p.m. that afternoon when her shift ended. The 38-year-old mother didn’t even realize the baby was in the car at noon when she went to go get coffee.

"When queried by the baristas as to how her daughter was, she responded, 'Having another happy play day' at daycare," Engler's attorney, David Terry, wrote in a letter to the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. "We can never know if her daughter was still alive at that moment.”

Terry is asking Douglas County prosecutors to drop the case, considering the circumstances.

On the day of Remy’s death, Engler decided to take her daughter to daycare, which her husband usually does, because she wanted to let him sleep after he’d worked a late shift at his job.

Terry said Engler suffered a lapse of awareness, a theory that changes in routine cause otherwise responsible parents to forget they have children in the vehicle with them.

Engler panicked when she found her daughter and could be heard screaming in the parking lot, Terry said. She rushed the toddler back into the medical facility where she works and staff performed CPR until an ambulance arrived.

Remy was later pronounced dead.

Engler had her daughter after struggling to conceive for 15 years, reports said.

"This is not about a heartless mother who does the unthinkable,” Terry wrote.

The temperature was about 80 degrees on Thursday.