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By all accounts, he was a doting dad to his year-old, twin son and daughter, setting up a bouncy castle in the yard for their recent first birthday party and dressing them in their latest cute outfits while his wife made breakfast in their Rockland County split-level. Then, on Saturday, Juan Rodriguez, 39, was hauled handcuffed before a judge, charged with the babies’ hot-car deaths. He forgot to drop them off at their day care Friday morning, Rodriguez has told cops — and didn’t realize they were still in the back seat when he parked at the Bronx hospital where...

The father whose 1-year-old twins died after he allegedly forgot them inside a hot car in the Bronx for eight hours on Friday has been charged in their deaths, police said. Juan Rodriguez, 39, was charged with two counts each of criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter for leaving his infant twins, Mariza and Phoenix, in the back seat of his Honda Accord while he was inside James J. Peters VA Hospital in Kingsbridge, where he works as a social worker. The father, who lives in Rockland County, told cops he parked at his job at 8 a.m. He only realized...

Biloxi, Miss. -- A former Mississippi Gulf Coast police officer is headed to prison for the death of her 3-year-old daughter, who was left in her mother's patrol car while the woman had sex with a police supervisor. CBS Biloxi, Miss. affiliate WLOX-TV reports ex-Long Beach, Miss. police officer Cassie Barker was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison in the 2016 death of Cheyenne Hyer. The 29-year-old pregnant woman pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter in a plea bargain after being indicted on a charge of second-degree murder. Cheyenne was strapped in her car seat in the patrol car...

Five-month-old twins in Virginia; a one-year-old in Tennessee; a three-year-old in Indiana; a nine-month-old in Texas; a three-year-old in Ontario; a nine-month-old in Tennessee. All dead, left behind in a blistering hot car within the past few weeks. I sorely doubt any of them were left intentionally, and there might be no more hotly debated topic than intent regarding these tragedies. A six-year-old saved from a hot car in Hamilton, Ontario by passersby had been left in the car on purpose. A medal to those who meddle. Thank you. But how do you solve a problem nobody thinks they have?...

CARROLLTON, Ga. (August 5, 2016)- A father was charged with manslaughter Friday in the deaths of his 15-month-old twin girls, who were left in a hot car in their west Georgia town, police said. Witnesses heard screams and saw Asa North running from the parking lot in front of his home, carrying the toddlers to an inflatable kiddie pool out back. He and his neighbors tried to revive them with water and ice packs, but they were too far gone.

Two women were arrested at a Kansas City shopping center after leaving a baby in a hot car while they shopped. Jamila Scott and Jaylyn Lux have been charged with child endangerment after a woman found an infant in a car over 86 degrees. The women were shopping in a CitiTrends while the baby was left in the car, with one window slightly cracked.The woman told the manager of the CitiTrends, Kimberly Wilson, who then told shoppers that there was a baby left in a car and she was going to call the police. After Wilson made that announcement, Scott...

WICHITA, Kan. — The Sedgwick County District Attorney is alleging that a foster father was high while a baby was left in a hot car last week. She later died. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett read the allegations during a bond reduction hearing for Seth Jackson on Friday afternoon. Bennett said that Jackson had run out of marijuana on the morning of July 24. That afternoon, he reportedly took two children to meet with his drug dealer where he bought more. When he got home, Bennett said he left the 10-month-old girl in the car, went inside and smoked...

Wichita police say a 10-month-old baby was left alone in a hot car for two to two and a half hours Thursday afternoon. The girl was found dead at around 6:40 pm in the 1500 block of S. Topeka. Police say the girl's 29-year-old foster father picked her up from a babysitter at around 4:00 in the afternoon. They returned to the home along with a five-year-old child. Police say, somehow, the child was left behind in the car as the 29-year-old and the 5-year-old went inside. The foster father's partner, a 26-year-old man who is also a foster parent,...

A mother-of-two has been arrested after allegedly leaving her children in a baking hot car and then attacking a woman who tried to help them. Heather Elliot told police she saw two boys, aged four and one, left unattended inside a car with the windows shut in the car park of a Kroger store in West Southport Road, Indianapolis. But when she approached the boys' mother Heather Query, she claimed the 21-year-old began shouting at her and then punched her in the face.

Temperatures are rising and so are reports of infants and toddlers dying from being trapped inside sizzling automobiles. A researcher says 18 children have died of hyperthermia since the beginning of the year, with eight deaths reported since June 13. That's the largest number of fatalities through the first half of a year since Jan Null, an adjunct professor of meteorology at San Francisco State University, began tracking the data in the late 1990s. Government and safety experts are telling parents that they never should leave children in an unattended vehicle or allow kids to play in cars and trucks....

HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- A Franklin County couple has been charged after leaving a young child in a car while they shopped.Police said 20-year-old Laura Havens and her boyfriend, 22-year-old Casey Shields, left Havens' 2-year-old boy in a locked car while they shopped at the Prime Outlets in Hagerstown, Md. The car was not running and police said the toddler was crying when they found him.Investigators found the boy around 2:45 a.m. Friday. Police said there was no heat in the car and estimated it to be about 36 degrees at the time.Jason Litten from the Washington County Sheriff's office said,...

One family is under investigation and another family has been arrested for leaving a child unattendeed in a hot car. In the first case, a 22-month-old was left in a car seat for three hours before she died. Ocoee police are still investigating the death. As for the other family, the parents were lucky, their 3-year-old daughter is doing OK, but her French mother and father are behind bars, charged with child abuse. Many other children do not make it, dying inside these extremely hot cars. News 13's Karent Castillo turned on a faucet in a kitchen sink. At its...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Japanese carmaker Nissan said Friday it has pulled a raunchy commercial starring "Sex and the City" actress Kim Cattrall from New Zealand television after complaints over its content. Cattrall, who plays sex-obsessed, promiscuous Samantha Jones in the hugely successful U.S. series, appears in the ad purring with excitement about Nissan's new sedan. "Why didn't you tell me it was so big, I just wasn't prepared for it?" she gushes. "The all-new Nissan Tiida makes you feel really, really, really good inside." She tells a salesman: "Ah! That was amazing. Absolutely fabulous! I mean the great body...

The woman left her daughter in the hot car Friday afternoon outside the Wolfchase Galleria in East Memphis. The child suffers from cerebral palsy, so she could not get out of the car on her own. She may have been left for more than an hour and a half. Someone leaving the mall noticed the child in the back seat. The child was rushed to LeBonheur Children's Hospital. She was not seriously hurt. Police waited for the child's mother to come out of the mall. She was arrested and faces a misdemeanor charge of child abuse and neglect.

Posted on Tue, Aug. 13, 2002 Girl, 2, dies after being left in a car for nearly 8 hoursHer grandfather forgot to take Sasha Fogle to her sitter, police said. The car topped 100 degrees.By Barbara Boyer and Thomas J. Gibbons Jr.Inquirer Staff WritersOn one of the hottest days of the year, a toddler died yesterday after being accidentally left by her grandfather in a car for nearly eight hours in Southwest Philadelphia.Sasha Fogle, 2, was stranded in the back of a 2001 Ford Taurus when her grandfather, Calvin Howell, 54, forgot to take her to her baby-sitter's home as...

Jailing parents after tragedy tough call FW baby's death in hot car illumniates divide: Prosecute or not? 07/11/2002 By CURTIS HOWELL / The Dallas Morning News A child dies alone in a hot, closed car. Is a forgetful parent a criminal, or another victim of a horribly tragic lapse? On cases like that of the Fort Worth woman whose 9-month-old son died in a closed car Tuesday, the nation's legal community is divided. Many prosecutors say parents should be held accountable for what they call inexcusable negligence. Let juries decide, they say. Also Online Video: Jim Douglas and Janet...