An agreed statement of facts read in a Newmarket court Tuesday reveals for the first time the shocking events that lead to the 2013 death of 2-year-old Eva Ravikovich at an illegal daycare run by Olena Panfilova.

Panfilova pleaded guilty on Tuesday to criminal negligence causing the death of Eva, admitting she left the child alone in a parked car on a hot day outside her filthy and crowded illegal daycare in Vaughan.

The agreed statement of facts, which were read before Justice David Stewart Rose in a Newmarket court, revealed events that led to Eva’s death, a case that spurred a Star investigation into lax child care inspections and prompted changes to provincial daycare laws.

Early in the morning on July 8, 2013, Panfilova, who offered a pickup and drop-off service for parents, arrived at her daycare facility on Yellowood Circle with “a number of children” in her Dodge Durango SUV.

Panfilova removed all the children she could from the passenger side and closed the door, leaving only Eva, still buckled into her car seat, according to the statement of facts.

Panfilova realized she had forgotten Eva at the end of the hot summer day, sometime between 5:06 p.m. and 5:21 p.m. — long after the girl had already died of heat stroke.

Paramedics later found her diaper was dry. An autopsy by Dr. Michael Pollanen found that Eva’s bladder contained “no urine” and her stomach was essentially empty.

According to the statement of facts, Panfilova brought Eva inside the daycare and she tried to call Eva’s parents, but could not get through.

Panfilova’s adult daughter, Karyna Rabadanova, then called 911, saying: “We’re taking care of a kid and — and I think she’s dead. We put her down for a nap. We went to wake her up and she’s not breathing and she’s like all . . . purple.”

Paramedics arrived within minutes. They described the child as “obviously dead,” according to the statement of facts.

“Olena never told anyone that Eva died in her vehicle,” the statement of facts read. “To the contrary, Olena told everyone that she had put Eva down for a nap that afternoon in the daycare, as usual, and when she went to check on her, found Eva not breathing.”

Panfilova and her family also denied knowing anything when police said they could not find a digital video recorder they believed was connected to cameras showing the front entrance of the daycare and the driveway. The car seat Eva sat in on July 8, 2013 was also missing.

Panfilova was charged with manslaughter in March 2016.

Also last March, Panfilova, her husband Ruslan Panfilov and Rabadanova were sentenced to 30 days in jail for running an overcrowded illegal daycare, a violation of the Day Nurseries Act.

The daycare was shuttered by health authorities, who found dangerous bacteria and filthy conditions in the home, the Star previously reported. When police were called to the daycare on July 8, 2013, there were also more than a dozen dogs on the premises, along with the children.

“In my defence I would like to say I was trying to help the parents. I was trying to help people who weren’t able to pay large amounts of money,” the Star reported Panfilova said at the time, through an interpreter. “It was my beloved work.”

Panfilova’s daycare, which was popular with Russian-speaking parents, cost between $500 and $700 a month, much less than a legal daycare.

Panfilova never applied for or obtained the required licence to run a daycare, despite an explicit warning from the Ministry of Education that the facility was illegally crowded.

“When you look at the facts of the case and compare it to the multiple complaints before this happened and nothing being done until this little girl died, it’s a travesty,” Patrick Brown, counsel for the Ravikovich family said. “Someone was sleeping at the switch and nothing was being done.”

In November 2012, two Ministry of Education employees inspected the daycare and discovered seven children in the facility. The ministry sent Panfilova a letter, dated Nov. 26, 2012, telling her to reduce the number of children in her care.

On the day of Eva’s death, according to the statement of facts, there were 35 children in Panfilova’s daycare. Parents were led to believe that she was caring for 15 children at most.

The law that was in place at the time of Eva’s death has since been replaced by the Child Care and Early Years Act. That law increases penalties for overcrowding in unlicensed daycares.

With files from Alex Ballingall and Marco Chown Oved