Posted on 11/05/2025 4:39:06 PM PST by yesthatjallen
PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) - An Arizona father at the center of a high-profile case regarding the death of his young daughter has died.
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that Christopher Ryan Scholtes, 38, was found dead around 5 a.m. Wednesday in a home near 7th Street and Northern Avenue.
Phoenix police said they are investigating his death as a suicide.
KOLD reports that Scholtes was supposed to turn himself in by the end of the day after missing a court hearing.
Christopher Ryan Scholtes, 38, was found dead around 5 a.m. in a home near 7th Street and Northern Avenue.(Arizona's Family/Pima County Sheriff's Department)
Late last month, the 38-year-old had accepted a deal in the case, where he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and child abuse.
Scholtes was accused of leaving his 2-year-old daughter in a hot car outside a Marana home last year.
Marana police and firefighters said they found the child unresponsive in the backseat of the car. She was taken to an area hospital, but did not survive.
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So sad
Unimagineable grief and guilt. Perhaps no 2 worse feelings to have together.
“Unimagineable grief and guilt. Perhaps no 2 worse feelings to have together.”
His worst feeling was having to spend 30 years in jail.
Left his daughter in car for 3 1/2 hours in 109 degree temperature as he went inside his house to watch porn.
“So sad”
What is sad is he killed his daughter. His death is not sad.
Jesus wept.
They are both sad outcomes. I swear the callousness on FR makes me sick sometimes.
“They are both sad outcomes. I swear the callousness on FR makes me sick sometimes.”
LOL! Here is a quarter. Go call someone who cares.
“Jesus wept.”
Why did Jesus weep.
If it was a mom they’d have given her flowers, probation and therapy.
I recently watched one the police bodycam of this on YouTube. Tragic. He apparently left the child in the car intentionally with air on and it eventually quit. Then he lied to the cops.
Here’s a link if you dare watch.
< https://youtu.be/9o2coPK9Wig?si=P7rSn68o27S8SyNM>
This one is more thorough with detailed Leo commentary.
< https://youtu.be/oYCicdU5S5c?si=AbTpXn9ZywNjEDtb>
If people didn’t read the article, or know the background, this headline and snippet could easily make you feel sorry for the guy. But once you know what a horrible father he was, and that he was fully culpable for the death of his child, it’s hard not to think “good riddance.”
I care. You ghouls are disgusting.
Jesus wept at the grave of his friend, Lazarus. It’s in the book of John, 11th chapter.
this place is full of sinners that do not see the glass house that they live in... it’s not the rocks that others throw that should scare them it’s the fact at any moment they can walk through a wall and have there world come crashing down around them
By the way, callousness, as a trait, undermines whatever points a poster may make on just about anything.
Oh, look. Callous Troll is callous. Who could have seen that coming?
I wholeheartedly agree with you.
But WHY did Jesus weep? I might need to do a dive into that some time. Jesus knew that he was going to raise him from the dead.
Did Jesus weep because:
He was going to bring Lazarus back into the sinful world?
He foresaw His own death?
Feeling sad for all of Lazarus’ friends and loved ones?
Sad because they had so little belief in Jesus?
Sad because there is death in the world?
All of the above?
Many more reasons?
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