Wichita ? The state suspended a day-care provider’s license after a 1-year-old girl died when she was allegedly left for about two hours in bathroom while strapped into an infant car seat that was too small for her.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment described the girl’s death in a document announcing that it had suspended the day-care provider’s license under an emergency order.

The department said the day-care provider, Jessica D. Cummings, called 911.

But the girl had died by the time help arrived, the document said. Police are continuing to investigate the death. No autopsy results have been released.

Contacted at her home Thursday night by The Wichita Eagle, Cummings said it was a “terrible accident.” She said she disagreed with the health department’s description of what happened.

Neither the department nor Wichita police have disclosed the baby girl’s name.

Cummings had a license to care for up to 10 children, health department spokesman Joe Blubaugh said.

She obtained a temporary license in August 2007 and received a permanent license in October 2007.

In its order suspending the license, the health department said the child was put in an old infant car seat that was too small for her.

The department also said the child was strapped in around the chest, but the lower strap was not fastened because the child was too big. The agency said the child was left that way in the bathroom.

“The licensee did not return to check on the child for approximately 2 hours later, at which time she found the child limp, slumped over and her lips were blue,” the agency said in its order.

Cummings “did not use sound judgment and an understanding of children when she tightly strapped a child into an infant car seat that was not big enough for her and for not checking on the child for 2 hours,” the order said.

In tearful comments over the telephone, Cummings said: “I just want to say my condolences go out to the family, and it was a terrible accident.

“There were several discrepancies and things that were not true things, that I did not say that they put” in the order, Cummings said.

She disagreed with the contention that the infant seat was too small.

The order, signed by Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Roderick Bremby, said an immediate suspension is needed to protect children in Cummings’ care.

Cummings has the right to appeal the suspension.