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The Arizona dad who abandoned his little girl in a sweltering car while he played video games got combative and asked, “So I’m being treated like a murderer?” newly leaked bodycam footage shows him being accosted by police.
After the police arrived at his house on July 9 and discovered his two-year-old daughter Parker desperately trying to stay alive in the family car, Christopher Scholtes, 37, also broke down. He had claimed to have left Parker in the car with the air conditioner on for about thirty minutes so as not to disturb her.
“Am I going to be treated like a murderer?” In bodycam footage obtained by Inside Edition, he notified the police that the property might be a crime scene after they informed him. He raised his voice during the interaction.
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The threat that Christopher Scholtes’ house would be used as a murder scene prompted him to become defensive.
According to the footage, Scholtes seemed distressed as he wandered about the house with his head in his hands when the police initially arrived at the residence in an attempt to rescue Parker.
Little is said in a not guilty plea by an Arizona father accused of first-degree murder for leaving toddler in hot car.
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While on the phone, he screamed, “Please, baby, please,” before declaring, “I can’t believe this” in a raspy voice.
At the moment, she is wearing a pretty attractive outfit. The police assured the father, who was hiding his face in his hands, that they would do all in their power.
Mom, an anesthesiologist, found her critically injured daughter, Parker, in the car with the air conditioning turned off around 4 p.m.
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Court records showed that Scholtes allegedly left Parker in the baking car for more than three hours while he was inside; he also allegedly routinely left his three daughters in the car. However, in the video, Scholtes claims to have only left Parker outside for “no more than 30, 45 minutes” and to have checked on her continually.
As the cops came, Scholtes too seemed distressed, repeatedly putting his face in his hands and sobbing.
Parker was found in critical condition in the hot car by Erika, Scholtes’ wife.
Erike Scholtes, his wife, emailed him after the disaster, “I told you to stop leaving them in the car.” “Do you count the times I’ve told you?”
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A prosecution complaint stated that their father “got distracted playing his game and putting his food away” as his daughter lay outside dying, and their two other children additionally testified that their father frequently left them in the car.
Child Protective Services removed Scholtes’s 16-year-old daughter from him because he left her alone in cars for long periods without food. The girl expressed astonishment that the tragedy hadn’t happened sooner, according to KVOA-TV.
It was her father’s stated intention not to rouse his sleeping daughter, Parker, so he left her in the car.
Despite his acquittal on Thursday, Scholtes is still free on charges of first-degree murder.
For the sake of their family’s ability to “start the grieving process” together, his wife had already requested that a judge permit him to return home.
The fact that this “was a big mistake” and doesn’t reflect him was her statement.
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