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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So he didn’t kill himself after killing his daughter but only when he was about to go to jail.[/quote]

Correct. Apparently the plea agreement meant he would do 20-30 years, which apparently he couldn't face. But it does once more show where his priorities lay.[/quote]

20-30 years seems like a crazy high sentence under a plea agreement. It was negligence for sure but ultimately an accident. A number of other parents responsible for hot car deaths were never even charged. I'm a bit perplexed by this. [/quote]

When people say, “It was just an accident,” here’s the thing that jumps out — in cases like this, investigators don’t treat words like accident lightly. They look at patterns, decisions, and warnings ignored. And when a prosecutor negotiates a plea that still carries 20–30 years, that signals something loud and clear: this wasn’t a split-second mistake. This was conduct so reckless, so far beyond what a reasonable parent would do, that a child’s life was put in danger long before the final moment.

That’s why the sentence was what it was.
Not because the system wanted to make an example of someone.
But because they believed the facts crossed a very real line — the line between tragedy and criminal negligence.

People point to other hot-car cases where parents weren’t charged. But those cases had different circumstances, different evidence, different levels of culpability. Not all negligence is the same. Some cases fit the definition of a horrific accident. Others fit the definition of a crime.

And in this case, based on what prosecutors saw, they believed it was the latter.

When a child dies because of an adult’s choices, the justice system has an obligation to respond. And sometimes that response is a long sentence — not out of vengeance, but out of accountability.[/quote]

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