Christopher Scholtes (man who left 2 year old in hot car in AZ in July 2024) found dead.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I never left my kids in the car, though I have known people who left their babies in the car to finish a nap with the baby monitor on. I never , ever did this. Too many things to go wrong. Just my opinion .

One of the court documents mentioned that there was no bed for Parker in the house, that she slept with her parents. If true, I find this extremely strange and also negligent on their part to not have a bed for the child. ( found document on Reddit)

Also very bizarre situation with his first child, now age 17. The article below says this first daughter is going to petition the court for custody of the 2 other girls when she turns 18.


https://www.tmz.com/2025/11/06/arizona-dad-hot-car-death-daughter-not-surprised-suicide/

“Eisenberg tells us the teen has been in the custody of Child Protective Services ... while her two younger sisters had been living with Scholtes and his spouse. We're told the teen plans to apply for custody of them in the near future, after she turns 18 later this month.

Eisenberg says the teen feels somewhat relieved -- but admits there’s still a part of her that’s sad, given it’s her father who’s now gone.“

Do you have a link to the Reddit document? TIA.

Here you go but they seem to expire quickly— hope it still works when you get a chance to check:

https://fromsmash.com/scholteschrisincident1121

The account of him leaving multiple of his babies in the car turned off repeatedly over the years, and how scared they were, and how often his wife told him to stop, before this death actually occurred, is one of the saddest things I have ever read. The death was 100% foreseeable. I'm not saying she should be charged, as her living kids need her now, but wow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how or why the wife - an fit, attractive anesthesioligst - put up with him for so long. And I suspect she assisted in his death.

I was married to a man not quite as bad as this guy, but who did negligent things with our DD.

I put up with it for years because the alternative was for him to have 50/50 custody, and I would have zero oversight over what he did. At least with him in the same house, I could keep an eye on him. And despite the negligent things he did, according to my attorneys, it wasn’t enough to get full custody in my state (to give an example, I have a male friend whose ex wife would let their young daughter sleep in the same bed with whatever her drug addict boyfriend of the week was, and when it was brought to court the judge literally said “at least she has a bed to sleep in”).

We’ve since split now that DD is older, but I still worry constantly. Mostly I just pray that xH gets bored and decides to move and give up custody.

Not saying this is what happened here - many women stay with horrible men because they’re just afraid to be alone - but I can understand that leaving can also be out of the frying pan and into the fire.

That makes sense but it doesn’t explain why she would leave the 2 year old in his custody while she worked instead of putting the child in day care or otherwise hiring someone to watch her.

[Anonymous]

She got a nanny when the court ordered it after Parker’s death, surely could have done it before.

[Anonymous]

I feel bad for all his daughters. He thought only about himself until the last minute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how or why the wife - an fit, attractive anesthesioligst - put up with him for so long. And I suspect she assisted in his death.

I’ll wager there were self esteem and mental health issues at play.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how or why the wife - an fit, attractive anesthesioligst - put up with him for so long. And I suspect she assisted in his death.

I’ll wager there were self esteem and mental health issues at play.

Kids are doomed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how or why the wife - an fit, attractive anesthesioligst - put up with him for so long. And I suspect she assisted in his death.

Because so many people put so much stock in a woman having a partner. At the end of the day, you do too, or you wouldnt have mentioned fit and attractive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how or why the wife - an fit, attractive anesthesioligst - put up with him for so long. And I suspect she assisted in his death.

Because so many people put so much stock in a woman having a partner. At the end of the day, you do too, or you wouldnt have mentioned fit and attractive.

So she was weak and dumb is what you are saying? Do you know her personally, or just an assumption?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how or why the wife - an fit, attractive anesthesioligst - put up with him for so long. And I suspect she assisted in his death.

Because so many people put so much stock in a woman having a partner. At the end of the day, you do too, or you wouldnt have mentioned fit and attractive.

So she was weak and dumb is what you are saying? Do you know her personally, or just an assumption?

You’re asking are we just assuming, on no evidence or reasoning, that a woman who kept this man (who had no job) around and left her kids with him even though by her own text admission she told him to stop doing this and always worried he was one day going to kill the kids doing it and then after he did kill one of her kids by leaving them in the hot car like she told him not to, asked a judge to let him go on a family vacation to Hawaii, is dumb and weak? Come onnnnn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never left my kids in the car, though I have known people who left their babies in the car to finish a nap with the baby monitor on. I never , ever did this. Too many things to go wrong. Just my opinion .

One of the court documents mentioned that there was no bed for Parker in the house, that she slept with her parents. If true, I find this extremely strange and also negligent on their part to not have a bed for the child. ( found document on Reddit)

Also very bizarre situation with his first child, now age 17. The article below says this first daughter is going to petition the court for custody of the 2 other girls when she turns 18.


https://www.tmz.com/2025/11/06/arizona-dad-hot-car-death-daughter-not-surprised-suicide/

“Eisenberg tells us the teen has been in the custody of Child Protective Services ... while her two younger sisters had been living with Scholtes and his spouse. We're told the teen plans to apply for custody of them in the near future, after she turns 18 later this month.

Eisenberg says the teen feels somewhat relieved -- but admits there’s still a part of her that’s sad, given it’s her father who’s now gone.“

Do you have a link to the Reddit document? TIA.

Here you go but they seem to expire quickly— hope it still works when you get a chance to check:

https://fromsmash.com/scholteschrisincident1121

The account of him leaving multiple of his babies in the car turned off repeatedly over the years, and how scared they were, and how often his wife told him to stop, before this death actually occurred, is one of the saddest things I have ever read. The death was 100% foreseeable. I'm not saying she should be charged, as her living kids need her now, but wow.

She should not be procreating either. That kid should have had a nanny. She knew her husband did this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how or why the wife - an fit, attractive anesthesioligst - put up with him for so long. And I suspect she assisted in his death.

Because so many people put so much stock in a woman having a partner. At the end of the day, you do too, or you wouldnt have mentioned fit and attractive.

No, I don't, I put stock in a woman for being educated and having a good job, which I also mentioned. Being fit and attractive is a bonus. Which is why I don't understand why she put up with him for so long. At one point, he drove drunk at 138 mph with the kids in the car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how or why the wife - an fit, attractive anesthesioligst - put up with him for so long. And I suspect she assisted in his death.

I was married to a man not quite as bad as this guy, but who did negligent things with our DD.

I put up with it for years because the alternative was for him to have 50/50 custody, and I would have zero oversight over what he did. At least with him in the same house, I could keep an eye on him. And despite the negligent things he did, according to my attorneys, it wasn’t enough to get full custody in my state (to give an example, I have a male friend whose ex wife would let their young daughter sleep in the same bed with whatever her drug addict boyfriend of the week was, and when it was brought to court the judge literally said “at least she has a bed to sleep in”).

We’ve since split now that DD is older, but I still worry constantly. Mostly I just pray that xH gets bored and decides to move and give up custody.

Not saying this is what happened here - many women stay with horrible men because they’re just afraid to be alone - but I can understand that leaving can also be out of the frying pan and into the fire.

That makes sense but it doesn’t explain why she would leave the 2 year old in his custody while she worked instead of putting the child in day care or otherwise hiring someone to watch her.

PP. I didn’t realize this, I just read through the details of the case and I’m actually shocked at this mother. Especially how she coached her other kids to say dad was a good dad who just made a mistake.

So, I did hire a nanny for my DD, and when we lived together I put the fear of god in him. I won’t get into details, but I described in graphic detail what would happen if he hurt our child (for context, this was after he started putting her as an infant on counters and the washer, and she fell off). At the very least with that AZ father, I would have smashed his video games with a baseball bat right in front of him the first time I caught him leaving my child in the car to play games. Cut off the WiFi and his phone.

So I agree now, this woman is a danger to her kids and should have held him accountable. That I don’t understand. You have to go full mama bear on dysfunctional men like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never left my kids in the car, though I have known people who left their babies in the car to finish a nap with the baby monitor on. I never , ever did this. Too many things to go wrong. Just my opinion .

One of the court documents mentioned that there was no bed for Parker in the house, that she slept with her parents. If true, I find this extremely strange and also negligent on their part to not have a bed for the child. ( found document on Reddit)

Also very bizarre situation with his first child, now age 17. The article below says this first daughter is going to petition the court for custody of the 2 other girls when she turns 18.


https://www.tmz.com/2025/11/06/arizona-dad-hot-car-death-daughter-not-surprised-suicide/

“Eisenberg tells us the teen has been in the custody of Child Protective Services ... while her two younger sisters had been living with Scholtes and his spouse. We're told the teen plans to apply for custody of them in the near future, after she turns 18 later this month.

Eisenberg says the teen feels somewhat relieved -- but admits there’s still a part of her that’s sad, given it’s her father who’s now gone.“

Do you have a link to the Reddit document? TIA.

Here you go but they seem to expire quickly— hope it still works when you get a chance to check:

https://fromsmash.com/scholteschrisincident1121

Really can’t believe that he killed his child and his texts to his wife were about how he was afraid of going to prison.

The world is better off without him. At least he did the right thing and took himself out.

[Anonymous]

I think the wife likely enabled a lot of unhealthiness in that home and she has to deal with the grief of the loss that came with it. But at the end of the day, he is the only one responsible for his daughter's death. This wasn't a forgot a child in the back of the car like so many of the others. This is intentionally leaving a child in the back of a car on a very hot day, and doing so despite it having been an issue before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the wife likely enabled a lot of unhealthiness in that home and she has to deal with the grief of the loss that came with it. But at the end of the day, he is the only one responsible for his daughter's death. This wasn't a forgot a child in the back of the car like so many of the others. This is intentionally leaving a child in the back of a car on a very hot day, and doing so despite it having been an issue before.

She’s codependent. If you read their texts, it’s the classic addict/codependent relationship - where she would call him out, he would pout “I guess I suck! I’ll just leave!”, she caves and reassures him he doesn’t suck. Then he would do the bare minimum to keep her around, like attend a meeting or promise to start running again, she stays because she thinks there’s hope.

However, she is also responsible. Maybe not as much, but she is. She knew this was a problem and didn’t do anything. It’s like a mom intentionally taking their child into a dangerous part of town knowing their child would likely get hurt - if their child gets hurt, yes it’s the perpetrators fault, but also, mom should not have been taking them there. It’s negligent.