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VIDEO: Police in Georgia rescue children left in hot car; Father arrested
VIDEO: Police in Georgia rescue children left in hot car; Father arrested (Screenshot from video courtesy of Cobb County Police Department)
COBB COUNTY, Ga. (TNND) — Two children left in a hot car for at least 40 minutes during a June day were rescued by officers in Georgia, according to police body camera video.
Footage from the Cobb County Police Department shows the moment officers broke the car window to save the children, with police noting the internal temperature of the car reached 117 degrees.0.25×0.5xnormal1.5x2x
VIDEO: Police in Georgia rescue children left in hot car; Father arrested (Video: Cobb County Police Department)
It’s OK, baby,” an officer says to one of the children. “It’s OK. Ooh, you’re hot.”
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The children’s father, J’quawn Dixon, was charged with “criminal negligence caused a child under the age of 18 cruel or excessive physical or mental pain” for leaving them inside the car without air conditioning, according to FOX 5 Atlanta.
In the video, which police shared on Facebook Monday evening, a 911 caller tells a dispatcher she saw the young children in the car alone.
I am standing outside of the Dick’s at Cumberland Mall and there are two children in a car by themselves — small kids — crying,” the caller says. “The windows are cracked, but I don’t think that’s right. We just came out of Dick’s and I heard kids crying. They’re little children. It’s a little boy and a little girl.”
The officers arrive at the scene and immediately decide to break one of the car windows. After shattering the driver’s side window, an officer unlocks the door and quickly tends to the children, who were sitting in the back seat.
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“Hey, kiddies,” the officer says. “Hey, buddy. It’s OK.”
The officer grabs the boy and notices the child is warm.
“I got some water for you,” someone says off camera, while another officer tends to the girl.
“It’s OK, baby,” the officer repeats.
That’s when first responders at the scene estimate the children were left alone in the locked car for at least 40 minutes.
Police praised the 911 caller for helping the children.
But first, a big THANK YOU to the concerned citizens who called 911,” police noted on social media. “Your quick action is the reason these kids are safe today. You saw something and did something, and that made all the difference.”
Video shows Dixon in handcuffs as he stands beside the car.
2-year-old girl dies after dad leaves her in car during triple-digit heat in Arizona, police say
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MARANA, Ariz. — A 2-year-old girl has died after her father left her in a hot car in Arizona, where residents are enduring triple-digit temperatures, according to authorities.
The father was running errands with his daughter, and when he returned home Tuesday afternoon, he allegedly knowingly left the 2-year-old in the car, Marana Police Capt. Tim Brunenkant told ABC News.
He left the car running and the air conditioning on, Brunenkant said.
The dad went into the house, and when he returned to the car between 30 and 60 minutes later, the car was off, Brunenkant said.
The 2-year-old was unresponsive and the dad called 911, Brunenkant said. She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.
The temperature in Marana reached a scorching 111 degrees on Tuesday. Marana is just outside of Tucson, where an excessive heat warning has been issued.
Brunenkant called the death a “heat-related tragedy.”
No charges have been filed at this time but charges have not been ruled out, Brunenkant said Wednesday.
Interviews are underway and police are looking for surveillance video in the neighborhood, he said.
At least nine children have died in hot cars across the U.S. so far this year, according to national nonprofit KidsAndCars.org.
Since 1990, at least 1,093 children have died in hot cars — and about 88% of those kids are 3 years old or younger, according to KidsAndCars.org.
Click here for hot car safety tips to keep in mind this summer.
Arizona dad who left his 2-year-old to die in hot car takes his own life on day of sentencing, official says
Christopher Scholtes, 38, pleaded guilty to murder charges after leaving his daughter in a hot car for about three hours when temperatures rose to 109 degrees.
Christopher Scholtes, a father who pleaded guilty to the murder of his 2-year-old daughter after leaving her in a hot car.via KVOA
An Arizona man who pleaded guilty to murder charges after leaving his 2-year-old daughter to die in a sweltering hot car for hours as temperatures climbed to 109 degrees Fahrenheit has killed himself, officials said Wednesday.
Christopher Scholtes, 38, was found dead in his home Wednesday, the day he was set to appear in court for his sentencing, Pima County Attorney Laura Conover announced at a press conference.
“This little girl’s voice was nearly silenced because justice was not served appropriately this morning,” Conover said. “But it has not and will not be silenced due to the hard work of the people who work here at the Pima County Attorney’s Office.”
Online records for the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s office confirm that Scholtes died. He is survived by two other children and his wife.
The 2-year-old girl died in a car outside her family’s home July 9, authorities said. Security footage from nearby homes shows that she was left alone in the car for about three hours, according to officials.
Scholtes initially told police that when he arrived home that day, his daughter was asleep in her car seat and he did not want to wake her, according to a news release from the Marana Police Department. He added that he left his daughter inside the car seat with the vehicle running in the driveway and the air conditioner turned on, before going inside the house, according to the release.
The air conditioner was not on, according to authorities. A complaint later filed by prosecutors said that Scholtes knew the car and the AC automatically shut off after 30 minutes.
Prosecutors said that Scholtes, who was unemployed, found the child dead in the car shortly after his wife, a doctor, came home from work and wondered where she was.
The 2-year-old girl was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, officials said.
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Scholtes was arrested July 12. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and child abuse charges in October and was expected to spend up to 30 years in prison, according to Conover.
Court documents later revealed that Scholtes was distracted by video games on the day his daughter died and “regularly” left his kids alone in the car.
Scholtes’ wife texted him “I told you to stop leaving them in the car, How many times have I told you,” as his 2-year-old daughter was being transported to the hospital, according to a documents.
He responded, “Babe I’m sorry!”
“How could I do this. I killed our baby, this can’t be real,” he added in a later text to his wife, according to the documents.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, call 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You can also call the network, previously known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, at 800-273-8255, text HOME to 741741 or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for additional resources.
4-year-old girl dies in Greensboro after being left in hot car, father charged with child abuse, police say
by: Justyn Araya DeBusk, Dolan Reynolds
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A father has been charged in connection to his young daughter’s death after she was left unattended in a hot car, according to the Greensboro Police Department.
During a news conference at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Assistant Chief Ric Alston said Shyheim Deion Moore, 30, was charged with felony child abuse.
He was given a $250,000 bond.
His 4-year-old daughter was pronounced dead on Wednesday night after Moore brought her to a hospital, Greensboro police say.
The investigation is ongoing.
