A dad played his PlayStation while knowingly leaving his two year-old daughter in a hot car to die in 109F heat, police allege.
Christopher Scholtes, 37, was arrested on Friday and charged with second-degree murder and child abuse after Parker Scholtes’ death.
The games console was seized during a search of his home in Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, last week.
Scholtes told police that he left his daughter in her car seat inside the vehicle because he did not want to wake her up, according to a criminal complaint obtained by DailyMail.com.
He said he’d left her in the family’s blue Honda Acura SUV for around 30 minutes after arriving home at 2.30pm, police alleged.
But new evidence put forward by prosecutors suggests the little girl was actually in the car for three hours in direct sunlight.
His wife Erika Scholtes, a doctor at the hospital where Parker was declared dead, arrived home at 4.08pm and asked where her daughter was, then found her in the car, police said.
As Parker was rushed to the hospital, she texted him saying: ‘I told you to stop leaving them in the car, how many times have I told you.’
She later added: ‘We’ve lost her, she was perfect.’
Scholtes replied: ‘Babe I’m sorry! How could I do this. I killed our baby, this can’t be real.’
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