Arizona Dad Who Left Toddler Daughter to Die in Hot Car Dies Before Sentencing

An Arizona man who pled responsible to the murder of his 2-year-old daughter final yr has died on the day he was set to show himself in to authorities forward of sentencing … TMZ has realized.

Christopher Scholtes November 5 dying is being investigated as a suicide, the Maricopa County Medical Examiner confirms to TMZ. According to the Pima County Attorney’s Office, he died Tuesday night time … additional particulars about his dying weren’t launched.

Scholtes left his toddler daughter, Parker, asleep in his automobile in July final yr and went into his home in Marana, a suburb of Tucson. He reportedly performed video video games and watched porn inside, based on the Arizona Daily Star.

The temperature that day reached 109 levels, and the little woman had been left within the automobile for about 3 hours, based on the Pima County Attorney’s Office … paramedics responded and took the kid to a hospital, the place she was pronounced useless … her physique temperature had reportedly reached 108.9 levels.

Scholtes pleaded responsible to second-degree murder and baby abuse two weeks in the past in a plea deal that may have him serve not more than 30 years for each counts. He was set to give up to authorities at the moment forward of his sentencing on November 21.

Another of his daughters, who will flip 18 this month, sued him for emotional misery final month, based on Tucson’s KVOA-TV.