Father, who left his 2-year-old daughter in the car for 3 hours to die commits suicide

“I told you to stop leaving them in the car”

Father, who left his 2-year-old daughter in the car for 3 hours to die commits suicide:

An Arizona man who pleaded guilty to leaving his 2-year-old daughter to die in a car in their sweltering driveway while he watched porn inside has now also died — and his demise is being investigated as a suicide, according to reports.

Christopher Scholtes was listed as dead by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s office Wednesday, according to ABC 15. His death is being investigated by Phoenix police as a suicide.

He was due to report to prison, but never arrived at the hearing where he was scheduled to be taken into custody. Scholtes’ death comes more than a year after his young daughter, Parker, was found dead in the driveway of their Marana home on a scorching July afternoon in 2024, when the temperature soared to 109.

He claimed to have left the toddler in the car for 30 minutes with air conditioning on because he didn’t wake her from a nap, but court records later revealed he left the little girl in the car for three hours – and even admitted that he was aware the car would shut off automatically after 30 minutes.
Scholtes was inside watching porn, playing video games and drinking beer while his daughter roasted to death outside.

The little girl was found when Scholtes’ wife came home — and she later berated him for not listening to her warnings that something like this was going to happen if he didn’t stop leaving his children in the car.

“I told you to stop leaving them in the car,” she wrote in a flurry of enraged texts after the death. “How many times have I told you?”
The grieving mother added in the exchange that their 2-year-old was “perfect.”

His older daughters, who he shared with a different woman, even told investigators that he sometimes left them in the car, and would forget about them after being distracted by his video games.

(By our staff reporter) New York
Picture courtesy: NY Post