'Dad' distracted by video game forgets dying 2 year old in hot car

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An Arizona 'dad' distracted by a video game forgets about his 2 year old daughter in hot car who later died. He was just charged with first degree murder.

Gamer Dad Charged With First-Degree Murder in Daughter’s Hot Car Death

His second excuse was he forgot his car A/C shut offs after 30 minutes. Huh?

Not just another case of a child or pet left in a hot car. Video gamers have done this before and for many these gamers might as well be addicted to crack. They sure as heck act like a junky.

Dad Admits to Playing Video Games For Hours, Getting ‘High’ on Cocaine While His Children Die in Hot Truck

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There was another death last week in Arizona due to a child being left in a car.

"It started when a neighbor gave the infant and his mother a ride from their Cordes Lakes home to Prescott Valley on Tuesday and the baby fell asleep on the way back.

The mother asked the neighbor to drop the child off with his father, who was due home soon. But the neighbor allegedly forgot and left the baby in the back seat at around 2 p.m., YCSO said."

Youth charged with negligent homicide after hot car death of baby

List of "Hot Car Deaths" so far in 2024.

2024 Hot Car Deaths - Kids and Car Safety​

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Forgetting children in a car is bad enough but too many parents do it for their own pleasure wether it's to go into a bar, casino or play video games. It's not just about convenience save time etc.That's the really heinous part. That tells me they view the children as forced baggage. They don't get what being a parent is about with their children being taken care of first and foremost.

And this video game obsession. I've had or seen more problems with gamers/gamers on drugs in less than 10 years than druggies my entire life.
 
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These are needless deaths. The courts need to penalize the defendants to the maximum allowed by law. Maybe it will sink in that their child is a responsibility and not a stuffed toy. If you have a child in the car and you get out, even if it's for only minutes to grab a loaf of bread at a convenience store, take the child with you and stop looking at it as an aggravation.
 
I was just watching a Video of police arresting a mother who'd left her 3 kids in the closed car, while she went off to the Casino...

Fortunately the children were alive when the police broke into the car to release them, and dragged the mother out of the Casino.

She was very annoyed that the police were there.. and apparently didn't see that there was a problem...yeah right... !!
 
Looking at the list of deaths, some are listed as “unknowingly left. “. How do you not know you left your child??? I understand being distracted, but geez! But “knowingly left” is a whole other level of neglect. Those folks need to be flogged, regularly and at length.
 
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In my opinion, these parents didn't "forget" about their kid. They used the family car as a babysitter. It was a secure place to ditch the kid, while the played or ran errands.
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And what did he do make them just sit and wait or give them electronic games to entertain themselves like he did.

What a pos father. He obviously didn't want to be a dad, such a burden for the 37 year old boy.
 
Yeah, "distracted father" doesn't really cover it, does it? What they mean is, the guy was more interested in playing a video game than caring for his child. I'm sure he'll never truly get over what has happened, but it truly is a sign of the times.
 
Apparently the wife was texting her her husband that she's told him many times to stop leaving the children in the car... so this was not his first time by any means... plus he lied about how long she was asleep in the car. he said he got home at 2.30, and the little girl was found dead by her mother when she got home, at 4pm... CCTV footage show that the father actually got home at 12.50pm...he faces life in prion if convicted...

Text messages sent between Christopher and Erika at the time showed her berating her husband, telling him: 'I told you to stop leaving them in the car. How many times have I told you?'

He responded: 'Babe, I'm sorry!'

'We've lost her. She was perfect,' Erika texted back.

Scholtes responded: 'Babe, our family. How could I do this? I killed our baby. This can’t be real.'

Scholtes is facing life in prison if found guilty of first-degree murder, and although the death penalty is on the table under state law, KGUN9 reports that the Pima County Attorney typically does not ask for the death penalty.
He only briefly spoke a few words in court and refused to speak to reporters after the hearing.

Scholtes' children reportedly said he would routinely leave them in the car with the air conditioning running, and police claimed that he understood that the vehicle automatically turned off after 30 minutes.

When Parker's mother, medical doctor Erika Scholtes, 35, returned home, she asked her husband where their daughter was, and Christopher reportedly searched for her around their home before remembering she was in his car.

Temperatures that afternoon reached 109F in Arizona, and Parker was rushed to her mother's hospital, Banner University Medical Center Tucson, where Erika worked as an anesthesiologist.
 
Putting dad in quotation marks is absolutely right. Gaming? How mature are these individuals. Everyone has the right to do that sometimes as a stress relief, whatever someone enjoys. But they sound like this takes over their lives and matters more than their kids. And doing coke? OMG!
 
Some people are simply not fit to be parents by maturity or mentality. They just blunder into it by following hormonal drives, and the children they unthinkingly produce pay the price for it. Some of the most terrible people I’ve ever met in my life have been the parents of children, while others who desperately want them remain childless. I’ve seen numerous children raised by grandparents because the biological parents were not mature or willing enough to settle down. Child abuse and neglect need to be addressed more seriously in our society, for procreation by those unfit for parenthood is widespread…*sighs*
 
Apparently this pos 'dad' had dealings with child protective services years prior. His teenage daughter is surprised it didn't happen sooner.

‘I’m Surprised it Didn’t Happen Sooner’: Teen Speaks Out Against Dad Who Played Video Games While Tot Died in Hot Car

Says she was left in the car for at least 4 hours and was long enough where she was hungry. She was taken away from him and lived with her mom. Her mom passed but now lives in a teenage friend's home.

The suspect is all about himself and own gratification. Wether a drug or game addict he's a selfish pos. I'm still trying to figure what this doctor saw in him
 
I guess I was never that distracted or let others take my kids in their car. I must be the most boring person in the world as i never was so preoccupied with anything to forget my kids are with me. OR these folks have the attention span of a gnat.

i never understood how people do not look in car as they get out ..especially if child was with them .
perhaps the remote lock makes it easy to walk away and not see you left anything....
I look in car because i make sure my extra shopping bags lay flat to show empty as some idiots have broken in to neighbors car thinking bag had something in it. Or someone who left their purse and was surprised when they figured it out ...the window was smashed and it was GONE.
 
https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-allegedly-stabs-3-year-boy-death-random/story?id=110808871

A woman allegedly stabbed a 3-year-old boy to death outside an Ohio grocery store in a random attack, according to police.

The boy, Julian, and his mother, Margot Wood, were both stabbed around 3 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of a Giant Eagle in North Olmsted, about 15 miles outside of Cleveland, according to North Olmsted police.

Bionca Ellis allegedly stabbed Julian multiple times as he sat in the shopping cart, and when Julian's mom tried to pull him out, Ellis also stabbed her, according to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley.

Julian suffered stab wounds to the back and cheek, police said. Wood, 37, survived with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Prosecutors said Ellis is charged with one count of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault, one count of endangering children, one count of tampering with evidence and one count of misdemeanor theft. She has not yet been arraigned, prosecutors said.

https://nypost.com/2024/06/10/us-news/julian-wood-accused-killer-smirks-in-court-as-she-is-charged/

This is the sickening moment a woman accused of butchering 3-year-old Julian Wood in an Ohio grocery store parking lot smirked, smiled and giggled her way through a court appearance as the horrifying charges were read against her.

Bionca Ellis, 32, displayed the disgusting behavior a week after she allegedly stabbed the child to death and also wounded his 38-year-old mother, Margot Wood, outside a Giant Eagle in North Olmsted, near Cleveland.
 
I have said this before, but I will mention it again. If women put THEIR PURSE in the back seat, every time they drive, they might just remember where it is.........Naw, too simple, right ? JIMB.
 
jimintoronto said:
I have said this before, but I will mention it again. If women put THEIR PURSE in the back seat, every time they drive, they might just remember where it is.........Naw, too simple, right ? JIMB.
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While admittedly more women in absolute numbers will forget their babies or younger children because they typically still are burdened with most of childcare, it's not just women who do it. Most cases are forgetfulness and truly unintentional, devastating for the parents also. For instance, you have to drop off your child in the childcare center, but get distracted and drive to your office instead. Child is asleep while you drive (or at the very least silent when you get out of the car, so you don't get reminded at the last moment). You go to work, and after your shift is done, oops...
I read someplace that in one of our neighbouring countries it happens more often with a certain type of bicycle where the children are in a closed compartment also, because they're easily overlooked when the parent gets distracted, parks the bicycle and goes about the rest of the day.
It never happened to my children, but I may add, if we were even just later than usual to drop them off, our daycare called to ask if we didn't forget, so I guess in our case it would have been virtually impossible.
 
Saphira said:
While admittedly more women in absolute numbers will forget their babies or younger children because they typically still are burdened with most of childcare, it's not just women who do it. Most cases are forgetfulness and truly unintentional, devastating for the parents also. For instance, you have to drop off your child in the childcare center, but get distracted and drive to your office instead. Child is asleep while you drive (or at the very least silent when you get out of the car, so you don't get reminded at the last moment). You go to work, and after your shift is done, oops...
I read someplace that in one of our neighbouring countries it happens more often with a certain type of bicycle where the children are in a closed compartment also, because they're easily overlooked when the parent gets distracted, parks the bicycle and goes about the rest of the day.
It never happened to my children, but I may add, if we were even just later than usual to drop them off, our daycare called to ask if we didn't forget, so I guess in our case it would have been virtually impossible.
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But this suspect wasn't doing errands. Judging by his child abuse history he's purposely been using a car to keep his children out of sight out of mind.

And what should a man leave in a backseat or in the car as a reminder?
 
Saphira said:
While admittedly more women in absolute numbers will forget their babies or younger children because they typically still are burdened with most of childcare, it's not just women who do it. Most cases are forgetfulness and truly unintentional, devastating for the parents also. For instance, you have to drop off your child in the childcare center, but get distracted and drive to your office instead. Child is asleep while you drive (or at the very least silent when you get out of the car, so you don't get reminded at the last moment). You go to work, and after your shift is done, oops...
I read someplace that in one of our neighbouring countries it happens more often with a certain type of bicycle where the children are in a closed compartment also, because they're easily overlooked when the parent gets distracted, parks the bicycle and goes about the rest of the day.
It never happened to my children, but I may add, if we were even just later than usual to drop them off, our daycare called to ask if we didn't forget, so I guess in our case it would have been virtually impossible.
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What neighbouring country are you talking about ? Where do you live ? JIMB IN Toronto.
 

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