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An American man committed suicide after leaving his two-year-old daughter to die of heatstroke in his car while he watched porn.

Auteur: Le Parisien

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Un Américain se suicide après avoir laissé sa fille de deux ans mourir de chaud dans sa voiture pendant qu’il regardait du porno

The father whose young daughter died alone in a car parked in the sun was found dead on the day he was due to go to prison.

The 38-year-old American pleaded guilty last month to the death of little Parker, admitting that he left her in his car, parked in the driveway of his home in Marana (United States), while he watched porn, drank beer and played video games.

But just hours before he was due to appear at a hearing after which he was to go into custody, Christopher Scholtes committed suicide at his family home, said Pima County District Attorney Laura Conover, as quoted by ABC Arizona.

"We expected him to appear in court this morning. But instead of coming to report what happened here, we were informed, and we confirm, that the father committed suicide last night," she said.

After rejecting a plea bargain last March that would have sentenced him to ten years in prison, Christopher Scholtes faced between 20 and 30 years in prison, without the possibility of early release, following a second plea agreement. This Wednesday, he was scheduled to appear in court to be remanded in custody pending his final sentencing on November 21.

"I told you to stop leaving them in the car."

The father of three initially claimed he left Parker in the car with the air conditioning on full blast for 30 minutes because he didn't want to wake her. But according to court documents, he watched pornography and drank beer for over three hours, until his wife Erika returned home at 4 p.m. and found her daughter unconscious in the car.

The girl was pronounced dead an hour later at Banner University Medical Center, the hospital where her mother worked as an anesthesiologist.

Christopher Scholtes' two other daughters told police that their father used to leave them alone in the car while he "allowed himself to be distracted playing his games," according to police reports.

This version of events is confirmed by text messages exchanged between Christopher and Erika after the tragedy. "I told you to stop leaving them in the car. How many times did I tell you?" his wife wrote to him. The 30-year-old replied with an apology, concluding with a terrible pang of conscience: "How could I have done this? I killed our baby..."

Auteur: Le Parisien
Publié le: Jeudi 06 Novembre 2025

Commentaires (4)

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    Senegalais il y a 8 heures

    C est des psychopathes,les américains,comme leur actuel président collabo des impérialistes sionistes genocidaires.
    Des gens sans foi ni loi,qui adoubent les armes et la violence plus que tout.
    Tchim.

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    porozet il y a 7 heures

    correspondant pastouffe aux US !!

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    Bocar il y a 7 heures

    Tu penses que les hommes de ton pays le senegal sont meilleurs? Ici meme, ya des cas de v iols d’enfant de 2, 3 ans. Des hommes qui battent leurs femmes et trouvant ça normal culturellemt.

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    bravo il y a 7 heures

    Bravo ce n'est un Sénégalais qui aurait fait ça, une prière , dieu m'a pardonné c'est reparti mon kiki

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