Mom in Child Hot Car Death Case Asks for Husband to Be Freed 

Zero excuse here. He didn't want to disrupt his daughter's nap. He didn't want HER to disrupt his VIDEO GAME. His priorities were very clear here.

Text message: " How many times have I told you" . Sounds like she is talking to a child

“He’s an amazing father”??? Really?? He left her in the car for not 30 minutes but for HOURS, the BAR IS ON THE FLOOR

She's one of those women who put men above her children. That poor baby girl deserved better parents.

How old is the father not to realize the risk of leaving the child inside the car alone?

The title should be "Man leaves child in hot car to play video games"

She’s pleading for her husband when video games were more important to him than their baby?!?!?!

He is NOT an amazing father. He is a TERRIBLE father. How can you forget about your child. Poor child suffered in the hot car.

shes a doctor and hes a stay at home dad who was too busy playing video games? she could do better.

"How many times have I told you" So it's not the first time he's left in a car?

His wife wrote in her text, "How many times have I told you?" How can you write that text and then say in court he is an amazing father if he has done this OBVIOUSLY before?!!!! He he doesn't DESERVE to go to her funeral!! He deserves to grieve alone, after all his daughter had to die alone because of HIM!!!!! They get NO sympathy!!!! Pathetic!!!!!

Kinda disgusting that you’d not only stay with a person whose gross negligence resulted in the death of your baby but also try and get him out of jail gtfoh

That wasn't the first time he left the child in the car. Get REAL.

I will never understand why people leave their kids in cars to begin with

What a horrible woman! I chuckled when she flat out said he's an amazing father. Your child is gone because of him Einstein!

Says he is a good dad knowing he has a history of leaving his children in a hot car?

He was too lazy to wake her up, just so he wouldn’t have to babysit. Rather get online and play video games. 😢

With all the sick people.rumning around in America you will leave your child in the car alone outside and go in your house for hours??

The pain that girl experienced. Crying out and no one came to get her. Shameful.

The fact that this woman is standing by her husband after this is nearly as tragic. Poor little girl.

I was a stay at home dad, with my daughter until kindergarten, and live in Phoenix. Real stay at home dads, don’t do things like video games, until mom’s home. They definitely don’t leave their kids in the car, living in the desert. What a POS!!!

Allow him to come home so he can put the other two children in danger? I don’t understand how she can even stand the sight of him. CPS needs to investigate her because she admitted to knowing he does this often.

The audacity of this woman to tell a judge (like she is ordering the judge) to let him go. What about "No."

He pled not guilty? And the mom says he’s a good father? I’m sorry but I don’t think they actually cared about that little girl. How do you plea not guilty knowing your actions killed your child? How do you still call him a good father knowing he has done this multiple times with this time resulting in the death of your child?

He just didn't feel like dealing with her. He wanted to play his video games and not have to deal with his kid. Well, now he'll never have to deal with her again :(

He should stay in prison. How could he be an amazing father if he leaves his kid in the car? He knew after 30 mins the car would shut off but he was too busy gaming? That’s not fair for that poor girl

I just got done reading the article. Apparently, this guy often left ALL 3 of his daughters in the car. It's a miracle how the older 2 children survived infancy.

The victim’s mother has an error in her head. Amazing fathers don’t leave their children to die in a hot vehicle while he’s distracted with video programs. He’s going to prison,lady! Get over it.

This wasn't the first time he had left his daughter in the car. His wife told him numerous times to not do that

I wouldn't even leave my dog in a car let alone a small child especially in the AZ heat (which I can tell you I have experienced first hand living there). He is a sorry excuse of a "father". The mom should be furious with him and not ask the judge to free him. What is she thinking?????

This is completely intentional murder. 109 degrees and he left her there for HOURS knowing the car would shut off after half an hour....this was on purpose. Why tf would you want him released?

I’m surprised she can even stand to be around him. She found her deceased daughter after a long day at work while her man child husband was playing video games.

They had me that first half genuinely felt bad for the guy. Only to find out the car has a safety feature that allowed it to shut off(that he knew about mind you) and yet he still elected to leave his child IN A VEHICLE,DURING THE SUMMER, IN ARIZONA?! Nah leave him where he’s at

He should have gotten his daughter out first. It was 109 degrees outside. His wife thinks that automatically asking her husband to get released. The judge is going to just release him?

He has made multiple attempts to leave the little girl in the car, the mother knew it and still allowed the “father” to alone with child! Sounds suspicious for both! The mother doesn’t even sound distraught about losing her child! This was 100 percent preventable!

This guy's wife is a doctor and yet he leaves her in a hot car 109 degrees whether he was lazy and wanted just to be able to play video games is not an excuse I 100% believe the mom and him were in on killing their own child

She called him an amazing father... wtf?

I don’t get it. He was home but left the kid in the car. The kid is the 1st thing you grab when you leave the car. Something doesn’t add up.

"he's an amazing father" well ... the bar just keeps getting lower and lower.

"He's an amazing father."? Really? You can seriously say that with a straight face? If that is "a great father" then I really want to know what you consider a BAD father to be. He killed your child lady! To think you hold a medical license is terrifying!

He left his child in a hot car and played video games instead. 😮 I'm not a parent, but I can't imagine ever forgetting a child in a car with the AC on, knowing that it would be shut off automatically. It's shocking to think he would just casually store away food and play video games.

Aside from leaving her in the car, the car could be stolen so please don't leave your child in the car for any reason

Really 😡 she said in her own words that wasn't the first time. And now she wants him freed. She needs to be in there too

Even if the car did stay on with the ac, he is still leaving a child alone with a car with the key in. The priority of immediate gratification over his children safety got her killed.

Video Games And Storing Food Over Child. Horrible Excuse.

Y should he be freed he left his child in a HOT CAR so he could play VIDEO GAMES and put away his food no he shouldn’t be freed from jail and for him to do this DOES NOT MAKE HIM A GREAT FATHER Either it makes him a horrible father in my opinion

She's in denial? She's in pain? Her husband, who's left the kids in the car before and had to be told to not do that, left one of the sleeping kids in the car for 3 hours (knowing the car automatically shuts off after 30 minutes), because he was distracted playing video games and eating, IS A GOOD DAD??? She doesn't want to have to pay for outside care for the surviving two kids when she goes back to work? Maybe this will finally teach him and he'll not kill the surviving two kids?? I wouldn't want her to be in charge of any of my healthcare needs, if after everything her husband did, she can say with a straight face that he's a good father. Her judgement is skewed.

Amazing fathers don’t leave children in cars!!

Some people just shouldn’t procreate

We keep seeing kids die in cars and yet parents keep leaving them inside?? I don’t understand

People don't forget their cellphones yet they forgot their kids in the car!!!!!

Life in prison without the possibility of parole:

she should be in jail for ever requesting he gets out .. shes showing she doesn’t understand the severity of what he did

Don’t let him out lock him up for life how stupid can you be your children depend on you!!!! Need you for protection and care not what is convenient for you shame on his parents for making him think it’s ok to leave her in there wth did you think would happen

A stay at home dad that would rather play video games than protect his kid. What a loser

I have a lot of compassion for parents who forget their infants/toddlers in the back seat--the research on memory is very clear, forgetting a baby has nothing to do with how much the parent loves the baby and everything to do with things like how the brain handles things like habits, routines and stimuli. Gut this was not a forgotten toddler, this father made the deliberate decision to leave his daughter in that car. That wasn't a mistake, that wasn't a brain wiring glitch, that was a deliberate choice to risk her life for selfish reasons.

I can't even believe she's defending him 🤯

The mom sounds so...emotionless? Like "can you let my husband go 😐" she doesn't care about their dead baby it feels like

Playing a video game. He’s an adult. Grow up people. Wife is in denial. Total tragedy for all. Put him I’m prison for 25 years, he has the nerve to plead not guilty 🤯

Detectives spoke with Scholtes' two other children, aged 9 and 5, and they said Scholtes “had left all three children alone in vehicle regularly.” Truly sickening.

Defending him? Saying it was a mistake. Is she a Mother?

Wait, so he knowingly left her in the car? Why??

I truly don't understand how the Mom would want him back home after all of this. As a single Mom I can't rationalize this... Don't have kids if you don't wanna watch them..

The wife also asked her husband multiple times to STOP LEAVING THEIR CHILDREN IN A HOT CAR. He is not an amazing father.

The fact that the mother is calling her husband’s carelessness a “mistake” is very telling. While playing video games?? Really??

Parental inattention results in unimaginable tragedy.

I have never understood how anyone can "forget" their child?? It's really beyond me!

Oh, hell to the no, he needs to not be let out forever!

Those texts sound so fake lol. Like something they did as an act to pretend they care because they knew law enforcement would eventually see it

Completely avoidable! He knew the car would shut off in 30 minutes and did not check on his little girl for over 3 hours is mind boggling.

So, the wife told him many times not to leave the kids in the car, he knew the car would turn off in 30 mins and he decided to play video games.....I have no sympathy for him

This happens every year. People never learn. This should never happen😢

The mother sounds like she doesn't care at all...like she just wants the husband freed, so they can get on with their lives. Just like he "didn't want to wake her" just bcoz he probably didn't want to take the time after, to get her to go back to sleep! Just wanted to play video games 🙄

What irresponsible parenting that is. I mean you call “playing video games” an excuse?

If you have a baby under your responsibility, the last thing you can think of is to be playing video games. That's pathetic

There’s accidents and there’s bad decisions and this falls in the bed decisions category. It is absolutely appropriate to hold him accountable for the decision he made that took the life of his beautiful little girl. She suffered greatly before her death. I hope the judge takes that into consideration.

He got home per their own security cameras at 1253 and wife got home at 408 p.m. and nowhere in between did cameras show him going to even check on her. Per court documents it was nt the first time. COURT DCUMENTS? So per that news report he was already caught at least once for their to be record of it. Report noted father parked car in the sun in the driveway and went inside where the other 2 children were. So do we assume since they were awake they were with him and exited vehicle or left them home alone to run errand? If my spouse had a court record for this he would be told get a job and i would make other child care arrangements for my children. Plus video system would meet a hammer.

This is very tragic and unfortunate, I'd never leave my child in the hands of an electronic system, I understand forgetting something like ice cream but to forget your own daughter while you play video games is inexcusable, I feel horrible for the mother and the other kids, I hope they can overcome what happened, that poor girl didn't deserve to die in such a preventable way... let this be a stern lesson to others

Stop leaving your kids in hot cars!

Male weaponized incompetence left unchecked. 😢

So, not only did the Mom suffer, but now the sibling must grieve as well. Crazy.

He's clearly not an amazing father!

You don’t leave a child in a car! How negligent! Amazing father? The mother said he’s done that mess before! Nope he’s an adult he knew better!

He texts his wife instead of calling her about the death of their child. What is wrong with people!!

Many people do this on accident but this guy did it on purpose just to game. And she still said he is an amazing father?!?!

They both should be prosecuted and jailed.

No, he's not an amazing father. Leaving a child in a car unattended for any reason is unacceptable. And to go off and play video games for three hours, with the baby in the car alone, is simply unforgivably irresponsible. How sad that this woman is in such deep denial.

He’s an amazing dad ???? What????

Wait a minute, time out...🤨🙄...a father left his daughter in a hot car (not his first time) and went to go play video games??!! Oh no. Oh HELL no. 😠😠 Go directly to prison. He knew the risks. Her mom is crazy if she thinks her asking the presiding judge to release him is gonna happen.

Im sorry i dont care if he regrets this for the rest of his life even if this is what it took for him to learn a lesson.. its too late at this point.. hes an idiot. For one how do you ever forget your own kid in a car even if youre away for a minute. Its a whole ass person youre responsible for . And to be a stay at home dad and play video games while your kid suffers horribly with their survival instincts is to cry out hoping their parent saves and comforts them 😢 im a father of 3 girls and a boy ages 6 4 1 and 6 months.. i cant imagine this ever. He doesnt deserve to be a parent or freed this type of idiocy is too dangerous , hes a full grown man. And for the mom to want him freed is the cherry on top for unbelievable especially considering she said she told him not to do this. Theyre both idiots

Iam a grown a** man and when I seen this yesterday, I cried like a baby for 3 hours. Last time I teared up was when my twins were born 10 years ago.

Some ppl dont deserve kids!

They both did it for insurance money

Leaving your child in the car alone whether the engine was still running or not is down right irresponsible and stupid. And his excuse is that “he got destructed by playing video games and putting food away”? Smh 🤦 This is very shameful and pathetic. Some people just aren’t meant to be parents.

"Babe, I'm sorry she's gone, but I got to get back to my video games - I'm winning!!!"

This pos was playing video games!!! He’s not an amazing father at all ! That mother is nuts saying that

He didn't want to bring her in the house and put her in bed wow sir

When people ask me why I don’t want kids or pets and complain that I “haven’t had kids yet”, I show them this story. 💀

She said that he's an amazing father after abandoning his child and left her to die so he could go play video games. She is beyond unhinged. 😢

This is the same as having a drug addiction FYI.