CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A 10-week-old Missouri girl has died after being left inside a hot vehicle. The Southeast Missourian reports that siblings found the infant Saturday afternoon inside a vehicle at Parkwood Lake Estates trailer park in Cape Girardeau, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of St. Louis. She was pronounced dead at…
Town and Country, MO (KTRS) An area mother is under arrest after leaving her one-year-old daughter in a hot car while she went shopping. At around 4 PM Tuesday, Town and Country Police responded to a call of an unattended child in the Town and Country Crossing parking lot. Upon arrival, they found several employees…
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) – A Georgia man accused of intentionally leaving his toddler son in a hot SUV to die has told the judge presiding over his murder trial that he will not testify. In court proceedings streamed live online, Justin Ross Harris on Friday told Cobb County Superior Court Judge Mary Staley Clark he…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A new Missouri law will give legal protections to those who try to rescue children from hot vehicles. Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday signed the legislation into law. It took effect immediately. People will be required to contact police or other emergency responders before breaking in and then must wait…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A Tennessee woman arrested after authorities say she left her infant daughter in a hot car outside a Nashville strip club where she was auditioning has been arrested a second time on child neglect charges. Local news outlets report officials arrested 24-year-old Kelsey McMurtry on Tuesday, almost two months after her…
Harris faces charges, including murder, and has been in jail since the day 22-month-old Cooper died in June 2014