A teen father had admitted to purposely leaving his baby son to die in a hot car as temperatures hit 87 degrees Thursday.
New Philadelphia Police officers responded to reports of a deceased one-year-old boy brought to a hospital by his father at around 2 p.m.
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After providing inconsistent information surrounding the tragic death, 19-year-old Landon Parrot admitted that he purposely left his son unattended in the car for around five hours.
“This was not a matter of forgetting the child but was a deliberate act so as the child would not be a disturbance while in the house,” Police said.
Parrot was subsequently arrested and charged with murder, endangering children, and involuntary manslaughter.
