An Ohio dad reportedly confessed to leaving his baby son to die in a blazing-hot car as outside temperatures soared, after initially claiming the 14-month-old was alone just briefly.
Landon Parrott, 19 — who first said he’d left the infant alone during a short bathroom trip — allegedly copped to the heinous move after cops showed footage of him leaving the boy in the car at 8:30 a.m. and not returning until 1:50 p.m., more than five hours later.
“The child passed away after being left in the car unattended for approximately 5 hours, with an outside temperature of 87 degrees,” New Philadelphia Police Chief Michael Goodwin said in a statement posted on Facebook.
“It appears that this was not a matter of forgetting the child but was a deliberate act so as the child would not be a disturbance while in the house.”
Temperatures reached into the upper 80s on Thursday when the incident occurred. Police official Ty Norris told Fox affiliate WJW the car was likely as hot as 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
Landon Parrott left his baby in a hot car so the infant “would not be a disturbance while in the house,” police said. Facebook
Landon Parrott left infant Kyler in a hot car for over five hours, cops said. FacebookNorris said Parrott had admitted to cops he knew about the dangers of hot cars for kids.
“We estimate that would’ve made the interior of the car about 130 degrees and this child was in there strapped into a car seat with no fluids, no air conditioning, nothing,” Norris told the station. “It’s heartbreaking to see this unfold before your eyes.”
Parrott has been charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter and two counts of endangering children, police said. He is being held in custody on $250,000 bond.
Landon Parrott only admitted to the crime after being confronted with surveillance footage. Tuscarawas County Jail
Baby Kyler and his mother. Facebook
Kyler was an “active baby, always so curious” who loved “jamming out to Britney.” FacebookAn online obituary remarked on Kyler’s “sweet disposition and gentle way with animals, even at such a young age.”
The baby’s grandparents took to Facebook to mourn the loss of the young boy, whom they remembered as an “active baby, always so curious,” who loved “jamming out to Britney.”
“Justice will be served, but the purpose of this is to bring everyone’s attention to the existence of Kyler Phillip Allen Parrott,” Trevor and Casey Neering wrote.
“Kyler was an unexpected surprise who immediately changed our world in the best way, from the very beginning.”
