VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood slammed a father who’s accused of leaving his 18-month-old son to die in a hot car.
Volusia County deputies labored with the Ormond Seaside Police Division to arrest Scott Allen Gardner, 33.
Investigators mentioned Gardner left his son, Sebastian, in a scorching truck for greater than three hours on June 6, whereas he received a haircut and went ingesting in Hanky Panky’s Lounge.
Throughout that point, Sebastian’s physique temperature reached 111 levels.
In response to investigators, Gardner discovered his son lifeless within the automotive after he left the bar.
As a substitute of calling 911, deputies mentioned Gardner drove to his mom’s home after which known as for assist, however by that point, Sebastian had been lifeless for about an hour or two.
The sheriff mentioned Gardner went out for extra drinks along with his mom on the lounge following the toddler’s demise.
Gardner reportedly gave a number of false accounts of what occurred to authorities.
“This father is a human piece of rubbish, and he is a mendacity sack of (expletive). He is precisely the place he belongs to be: behind bars,” Chitwood mentioned in a information convention on Friday.
Gardner was charged with aggravated little one abuse and aggravated manslaughter.
“My hope for him is each night time when he closes his eyes, and each morning when he opens his eyes, his son Sebastian sits there and says, ‘Dad, why did you do that to me?'” Chitwood mentioned. “As a result of there is no such thing as a cause for this little boy to be lifeless.”
