Toddler's Hot Car Death

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<p>Another poster referenced an email from the daycare center on the day of Cooper’s death… Wondering if the email referenced that the child was not there that day? That would certainly do him in. This guy sits in court cool as a cucumber. I would be hysterical. Hard to believe someone could be so heartless. Such a beautiful child.</p>

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<p>Didn’t Casey Anthony do internet searches before the death of her child too? I realize the evidence in this current case may be different and more definitive, but we never know what a jury will do with the evidence.</p>

<p>If this guy wanted to be child-free, why didn’t he just leave his wife and son? That makes me wonder what the wife’s involvement in this may have been.</p>

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<p>I think he did it. However as far as life insurance policies go the last couple companies my husband worked at offered life insurance for spouses & dependents. You have to pay for it but it is something that you can sign up for each year. So I don’t think having a life insurance policy on a child is all that unusual. I wouldn’t be suprised if one of those polices was from home depot.</p>

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<p>If they wanted to be child free, just leave infant at a police station or church. I fear totally $ driven. Better if they had offered this lovely child for illegal adoption. </p>

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<p>@michigangeorgia, I read that one of them was from his employer (the smaller policy).</p>

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<p>I can partially sympathize with a parents frustration with a child and accidentally killing them instead of stepping out of the room.
But I cannot comprehend a parent planning their child’s death, particularly one that involves such agonizing suffering.</p>

<p>I generally don’t believe in the death penalty, but I think that he sounds like a monster and his wife doesnt sound much better.</p>

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<p>I wonder if they will pressure the wife to turn on him so she ends up with a shorter sentence. Although I read that he was overheard telling his wife that their son looked peaceful when he found him with his mouth and eyes closed. The police said this was NOT the case. But why would he tell her that if they hadn’t been worrying about what kind of death it would be? So maybe she could be just as culpable as he is if she knew he was going to do it that day. <em>shudder</em></p>

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<p>The wife’s behavior is bizarre. She is shown on CNN in the seating area of the courtroom. She looks as if nothing has happened - chewing gum and dry eyed. What appears to be unfolding is stunning.</p>

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<p>News is predicting the charges will be bumped up to malice murder</p>

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<p>The larger policy was taken out in Nov 2012. Probably around when the child was born.</p>

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<p>There are so many things wrong with their story. It’s unfathomable to understand what is behind this </p>

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<p>Both parents seem emotionless over the death of this child. They give me the chills.</p>

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<p>There are probably many couples desperate to have a child! If these parents were not happy with being parents, why couldn’t they find a non-criminal way of giving up their parental rights and let the kid grow up being loved by people who truly wanted to have a family?!</p>

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Not sure about the laws these days, but I don’t think you can just leave a 22-month-old.</p>

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<p>Georgia law covers infants up to 1 week old as able to be relinquished under the safe haven law.<br>
<a href=“https://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/safehaven.pdf”>https://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/safehaven.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Here are today’s articles:<a href=“http://www.ajc.com/news/news/detective-toddlers-dad-had-a-double-life/ngYgf/”>http://www.ajc.com/news/news/detective-toddlers-dad-had-a-double-life/ngYgf/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.myajc.com/news/news/dad-sexting-while-child-trapped-in-hot-car/ngYtW/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstub1#370f5563.524127.735418”>http://www.myajc.com/news/news/dad-sexting-while-child-trapped-in-hot-car/ngYtW/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstub1#370f5563.524127.735418&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Unless he has a backup camera in his Hundai Tuscon, he would have had to have turned around when he backed his car into the parking space at work, and would have seen his son. The part that really got to me were these lines:

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<p>Horrible image it engenders.</p>

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<p>He also was heard to say that he had worried about how the child would look when he found him. Something to that effect.</p>

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<p>I believe it was the wife who was heard to say she dreaded how he would look .

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<p>The detective also said their were scratches on his face and abrasions on the back of his head. Not sure if the implication is that those happened in the course of his struggle in the car or sometime prior to that.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.ajc.com/news/news/warrants-toddlers-dad-gave-steps-to-collect-insura/ngY3R/?ecmp=ajc_social_facebook_2014_sfp”>http://www.ajc.com/news/news/warrants-toddlers-dad-gave-steps-to-collect-insura/ngY3R/?ecmp=ajc_social_facebook_2014_sfp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This is awful. The shopping center where he pulled over is about 2 miles from his office:</p>

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<p>This sounds very much like a plan to murder the child for an insurance payout which aside from being horrific is also just nearly unbelievably stupid. </p>