Girl dies in hot car while 'dad' played video games, watched porn and drank beer

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An Arizona man pleads guilty to 2nd degree murder and child abuse for letting his 2 year old daughter die in a hot car while he drank beer, watched porn and played video games.

Arizona dad who left toddler in hot car to die as he watched porn, played video games pleads guilty

Apparently had a history of leaving his kids in the car for hours even after being warned by his doctor wife who didn't attend hearings/court appearances. The pos refused plea deals in the past probably trying to avoid responsibility.

The dangers of hot cars are well known and are the addictive and distractive nature of those vices/activities. What did he not understand.

RIP little girl
 

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It was a 109 degrees outside that day. She was inside the car for 3+ hours. He left the car running with the A/C on, but the car shuts off after 30 minutes. This was an intentional act, not an accident as his past record shows he has done this several times before.

This should be a life sentence, but it depends on how the judge sees it. Intentional or accident?
 
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It was a 109 degrees outside that day. She was inside the car for 3+ hours. He left the car running with the A/C on, but the car shuts off after 30 minutes. This was an intentional act, not an accident as his past record shows he has done this several times before.

This should be a life sentence, but it depends on how the judge sees it. Intentional or accident?
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Intentional or accident..either way a two year old child is dead and denied a lifetime of years ahead of her .. This jackass should never see the light of day again!
 
VeggieMan said:
Intentional or accident..either way a two year old child is dead and denied a lifetime of years ahead of her .. This jackass should never see the light of day again!
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You may be right, but in Pennsylvania, it matters in court if the defendant can prove it was accidental. The defendant doesn’t get a pass, but the sentence may be lessened.

In this case, because the person had a history of leaving a child in a hot car will make it difficult to prove it was accidental. It may not have been intentional, but it wasn’t an accident. It’s negligence, which in many cases proves intent. There is no gray area here. It’s either black or white and up to the jury to decide.
 
I thought I read where the 'dad' also has left kids in the car while he got and then drank beers. That alone should be somekind of felony negligence or child endangerment. Fatherhood was too much for this pos.

I still can't believe the wife tolerated his prior negligent acts as long as she did. Apparently it wasn't until she found out he was lying with information presented in a court hearing. Then she woke up.
 
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Here are the Culpable mental states in Arizona. Take your pick of what you would charge him with.

10. "Culpable mental state" means intentionally, knowingly, recklessly or with criminal negligence as those terms are defined in this paragraph:

(a) "Intentionally" or "with the intent to" means, with respect to a result or to conduct described by a statute defining an offense, that a person's objective is to cause that result or to engage in that conduct.

(b) "Knowingly" means, with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. It does not require any knowledge of the unlawfulness of the act or omission.

(c) "Recklessly" means, with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists. The risk must be of such nature and degree that disregard of such risk constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the situation. A person who creates such a risk but who is unaware of such risk solely by reason of voluntary intoxication also acts recklessly with respect to such risk.

(d) "Criminal negligence" means, with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists. The risk must be of such nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the situation.
 
She was a beautiful, sweet little girl. What an avoidable tragedy! I feel that people who do this want to kill their children. He sounds like a loser POS who should spend the rest of his life in jail. Even though the girl's mother is a doctor, she must not be the brightest bulb on the tree....leaving her daughters in his care considering his history of repeatedly doing the same thing in the past and telling him to stop it. Too bad she isn't being charged as an accessory.
 
Killing their children maybe not but do they consider them a burden and/or filled with regret absolutely. The mother has a full fledged career as a doctor. The 'father' was a musician want to be probably still holding out hope he might make it.

Too many don't take parenthood seriously, are filled with regret and/or build up more resentment when they realize they can't do what they really want.
 
AnneTeak said:
where do u find stories like this? if i see any inkling of a story like this, i just pass on by
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It was in the national headline news for a couple of days as are many child deaths. Video game addiction has also been in the news for the last few years with numerous lawsuits being filed against the manufacturers. Same for drug addiction/abuse. Sadly they're a combo that's more common than people think including 'parents' with kids.
 
A deadbeat dad who left his two-year-old daughter to die in a hot car while he watched pornography was supposed to begin a decades-long stint behind bars.
Instead, Christopher Scholtes took the coward's way out at his $1million home in Phoenix, 16 months after his little girl Parker's slow, agonizing death in July 2024.
His family told the Daily Mail that Scholtes, 38, took his own life on Tuesday night, which was later confirmed by prosecutors.
The killer dad's eldest child, now aged 17, told the Daily Mail via her former guardian that she 'wasn't surprised' he killed himself to escape prison.
Lindsay Eisenberg, who looked after the teen after her mother died last year, described how she broke the news about her father's death.
'She said "I knew he was going to do this, I knew he was going to commit suicide". Then she asked if her sisters were OK,' Eisenberg said.
The teenager, who the Daily Mail has chosen not to name, also blasted her father's wife, anesthesiologist Erika Scholtes, whom she sued for emotional distress along with her father last week.
'She wants to pursue the civil suit against Erika even more and fight her for custody of her little sisters when she's 18 in two weeks,' Eisenberg said.
Eisenberg said Erika was holed up inside the family home with the young girls, and speculated Scholtes took an overdose of pills to end his life.
 
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Chris Scholtes (left) killed himself at his family home in Phoenix Wednesday.

Scholtes's wife Dr Erika Scholtes is seen holding daughter Parker, 2, who her husband murdered in a hot car in July 2024.
 
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Parker had been left to sleep in the family's Acura with its air conditioning turned on. Her father admitted her second-degree murder last month and had been facing 20-30 years without parole when he was found dead
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On one hand the doctor mother should've known enough about addicts to know her husband couldn't be trusted or change until he really wanted to for himself and not to appease others.

That being said the mother woke up albeit late about her husbands habit after evidence cameout that showed he lied to her. She is a doctor with a job and income so she'll probably wind up retaining custody. That being said local child protective services should be making several announced and unannounced visits to that household a year.
 

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