A woman who left her seven-month-old baby in a car outside a Montreal shopping centre received a $60 ticket, police said Friday.

Police said the baby boy was apparently crying and sweating when someone noticed him in the backseat of a white SUV Thursday.

Since June, Montreal police say they’ve received 37 reports of children left unattended in vehicles.

In the latest case, police officers broke the car window to get the baby out and he was taken to hospital as a precaution.

According to police, video surveillance footage showed that the boy’s mother left him in the car for at least 40 minutes while she was inside the mall.

When police paged her, the 29-year-old woman accompanied her son to the hospital, where doctors examined him and said he was OK.

In addition to the $60 ticket for leaving a child under the age of 7 alone in a vehicle, the woman could face possible charges. Social services are also looking into the case.

With a report from CTV Montreal