Police: 'Game of Thrones' reminded man baby was left in hot car

Seth Jackson (AP)



Tuesday, August 05, 2014
WICHITA, KS --

A child crying on the television show "Game of Thrones" jogged a foster parent's memory that he had left a 10-month-old girl inside a sweltering car while he and his partner smoked marijuana at their house, a police affidavit released Monday says.

Seth Jackson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder in the July 24 death in Wichita. No charges have been filed against his partner.

Police say the girl was inside the car with the windows up for more than two hours. It was around 90 degrees outside. An autopsy showed she died of hyperthermia due to heat exposure.

The affidavit says Jackson's partner told police that Jackson called that day to let him know he would be picking the 10-month-old up from the baby sitter after taking their 5-year-old adopted child to a doctor's appointment. Jackson told police that when he arrived home, he locked the car and went inside with his 5-year-old and the pizza.

Jackson's partner said he and Jackson watched one and a half episodes of "Games of Thrones" and smoked marijuana Jackson had picked up that day, according to the affidavit. The partner told police Jackson realized he had left the 10-month-old outside in the car when he heard a child crying on the TV show.

The men rushed outside, Jackson unlocked the vehicle and his partner removed the child.

The partner told investigators the girl was hot and stiff when he grabbed her from the car and carried her into the house. As he called 911, Jackson attempted CPR but could not get the child's mouth open, according to the affidavit filed by Wichita police detective Ryan Schomaker.

Officers who responded found Jackson still on the phone when they arrived, making calls and repeatedly stating, "I left her in the car, she's dead, she's dead," according to the affidavit.

Meanwhile, the girl was unresponsive and lying on her back on the couch. Firefighters moved the girl from the couch to the floor once they arrived and attempted to revive her.

Later in an interview at police headquarters, Jackson's partner told detectives he and Jackson had been foster parents to the 10-month-old girl since she was 2 weeks old. Police have not released the child's name and documents in the case only use her initials.

Although the girl died of hyperthermia, Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said the first-degree murder charge was warranted because the child died during the commission of an inherently dangerous felony, aggravated endangering of a child. The case is not charged as intentional murder.

In addition to the 10-month-old, who they were trying to adopt, Jackson and his partner had five other children in their care. They had three other foster children ages 3, 5 and 18, and two adopted children ages 5 and 7. The two younger foster children were visiting other relatives at the time the 10-month-old died.

Prosecutors and Jackson's attorneys agree the circumstances are entirely different than a widely publicized case in Georgia, where a father faces murder and child cruelty charges on suspicion of intentionally leaving a 22-month-old boy inside a hot car last month as he went to work.

are you sure it wasn't just cause of they are a Dumb ***, apsent minded , or just being human got side tacked and forgot all together, or many of the other reasons i can come up with ? ?

WOW!

Defending a pot smoking murderer?

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT--

who said i was defending him ?
all i was saying was don't jump to fast to judge something
you don't know what the persons mental staight is
and to just say oh was cause he smoked pot is an easy comp out
but i see this is something i can't point out to you .... so have a great day

or better said with all the pot smokers out there , are they all baby killers ?

but what ever

judge as you like
read in to what ever you like

He left the baby in the car before they smoked the weed! This is a case of irresponsible parenting not death by marajuana!

love the doggys : )
carefull they might attack you and say you are defending a pot smoking baby killer

roflmfao

And you know he wasn't stoned before he went inside?

Pot smoking baby killer. Yes, he has been charged with murder and he was stoned.

Defend him all you wish.

If you're about to smoke Pot,better make sure before there are no important Chores left undone!
Remorse after the Fact ain't gonna cut it!

i never said anything about defending him , not sure where you are getting your info from

lmao you are too funny

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Excuses for, defending, same-same.

this is like talking to a wall

if that's what you want to read out of what i said , knock your self out , wish ya the best in life and hope ... never mind its not worth the effort , you wouldn't understand or listen if i told ya anyways

LOL

Stoned, not stoned, a moron, not a moron....whatever.
How does anyone forget a child like that?
There have been so many cases of that this summer, it's dumbfounding.
Are people losing the ability to concentrate, or even think?

Pot heads will only see a dead baby in a hot car as nothing more than a mere buzzkill.

Idiocy excusing the stoned dumba$$.

pancho, people have been forgetting things and being sidetracked since forever,, its tragic when it involves a child or a pet in a hot car,,, but absentmindedness is as human as jealousy or judgment,,,,


I cant imagine having to live with such an error though,,,,,poor family

people with and without pot can be dumbasses,,,,correlation is not causation,,,(some dumbasses might not understand that)


I wonder how many people have hurt others or killed others under their liquid confidence , alcohol

but they usually don't count the alcohol as the cause unless its drunk driving,,,

I'm what you would refer to as a pothead! I've smoked since I was 13 I retired from the army in 97 I smoked the entire time! I also have a 2 year degree in carpentry, and just finished building my house while On weed. I see a tragic loss of life by irrisponsible parents.