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An Arizona toddler who died from heat exposure was left in a car that reached scorching temperatures of nearly 109 degrees — while her distracted dad allegedly played video games, authorities said. Parker Scholtes, 2, was found dead in a Honda SUV parked outside her home in the Tucson suburb of Marana — where her father, Christopher Scholtes, left the tot to nap for more than three hours on July 9, according to police. By the time first responders discovered the girl’s lifeless body, the temperature in the vehicle had soared to 108.9 degrees, according to an autopsy report released...

Georgia Supreme Court has overturned a father's murder conviction for leaving his infant son to die in a hot car after they found the jury was shown evidence that was 'extremely and unfairly prejudicial.' Justin Ross Harris, 41, was sentenced to life in prison for the death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper, who died in 2014 after being left in a hot car for seven hours. But on Wednesday, Supreme Court justices agreed that prosecutors in his 2016 trial should not have told the jury about his conviction for sexting an underage high school girl. Prosecutors had highlighted Harris' frequent...

LAUDERHILL, Fla. (July 9, 2015)- Police in South Florida say an 11-month-old baby died after being left inside a sport utility vehicle parked outside their apartment near Fort Lauderdale. Lauderhill police spokesman Gregory Solowsky says the baby's parents and four other children were unloading groceries on Wednesday afternoon and forgot to get the baby out of the vehicle. He says about an hour later, they realized the baby wasn't in the house. They returned to the Ford Explorer and found the baby inside.

Driver Arrested in Death of 2-Year-Old Inside Day Care Center's Van The Associated Press Published: Jun 10, 2005 MILWAUKEE (AP) - The driver of a day care center van was arrested Friday in the death of a 2-year-old girl who was left in the vehicle for hours on a hot, muggy day. The body of Asia Jones was discovered Thursday afternoon when her mother arrived at the day care center in suburban Milwaukee and workers could not find the girl. Police say she could have been in the van since she was picked up eight hours earlier. Officers arrested the...

MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- An Oklahoma woman drove around for days with her mother's decomposing body in the passenger seat of her car, Florida investigators said Thursday. Sheriff's deputies found the woman's body Tuesday in a car parked outside a Wal-Mart store in the northeast Florida city of Palm Coast. The medical examiner ruled the 65-year-old woman had died of natural causes at least five days earlier. The woman's daughter, in her mid-30s, was inside the 24-hour store, where she had been shopping since the night before. She was incoherent and unable to give a clear account of her journey...