Cops rescue baby that Father left in a hot car while gambling: ‘I deserve anything that’s coming to me’
One Father left his six-month-old child inside of a hot car alone as he stepped inside of a Las Vegas casino to gamble as temperatures outside reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit, according to Authorities.
North Las Vegas Police Department report that dad Mitchell Anthony Hooks readily admitted to Police what he had done and why adding: “there was no excuse for it and no reason for it.”
Cops had to remove the crying baby boy from the vehicle before handing him over to paramedics on the evening of July 16.
“Mitchell told me he shouldn’t have done what he did and that he deserved anything that was coming to him,” Officer Osvaldo Cerda-Guzman wrote in the police report, as per Fox News.
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“He went on to say that there was no excuse for it and no reason for it.”
The baby was assessed and thankfully his temperature and vitals appeared normal but he was taken to hospital as a precautionary measure.
Officers were called to rescue the baby after a woman informed security at the casino that a child had been left alone in a car and was crying.
The baby boy was found in a distressed state in a car with all the windows rolled up, apart from the driver’s side which had been opened about 4 inches.
Officer arrived at the scene just after 10 p.m. and police body camera footage shows Sgt. Becky Salkoff pouring cold water on the baby in an attempt to cool him down, as per Fox 11 News.
An average of 38 children under the age of 15 die in hot cars each year since 1998 totaling a shocking 893. Ten of those fatalities have already occurred in 2021.
Police said the father-of-two initially told investigators he only went inside the casino to use the restroom, but later admitted to leaving his son in the car while he stepped inside to gamble.
He faces charges of child abuse or neglect and leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle with bail totaling $21,140.
Everyone be sure to share this as a reminder about the dangers of leaving children in hot cars.
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