A father has confessed to police that he intentionally left his one-year-old son in the car when it was 30 degrees Celsius outside.
The New Philadelphia, Ohio, Police Department was notified last Thursday that an unresponsive toddler had been brought to the emergency room at Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital by his father, a Facebook post from the police department reads. .
“During the initial investigation, the investigators found that certain information provided by the father was inconsistent”, is it written in the publication posted online on Friday.
After being confronted by the police, who presented him with the evidence and new information gathered, he finally confessed what happened to his son.
“The one-year-old lost consciousness after being left unattended in the car for approximately five hours, with an outside temperature of 30 degrees Celsius,” according to the Facebook post.
The young father explained to the police that he did not forget about the child, but that he deliberately acted to make the child unruly while he was in the house.
The 19-year-old is charged with murder, two counts of endangering the life of a child and manslaughter.