Central Texas Man Pleads Guilty In Death Of Toddler Left In Hot Van
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Central Texas Man Pleads Guilty In Death Of Toddler Left In Hot Van
A 34-year-old Central Texas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges in the death of his 18-month-old son, who was left in a minivan in August for hours.
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GEORGETOWN (March 10, 2010)—Kesen Hu, 34, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Georgetown to criminally negligent homicide and endangering a child in the death of his 18-month-old son, who was accidentally left in the family’s minivan for more than six hours in August 2009.

Each count is punishable by as much as two years in a state jail, but Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley noted that both charges allow for probation.

Hu says he was supposed to take his boy to daycare last August, but was distracted by a cell phone call and instead drove to his workplace in northwestern Austin.

His son was left in the minivan with the windows up for six hours before Hu remembered the toddler and raced out to the vehicle, where he found his son dead.

Hu and his attorney said it was a tragic mistake.


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Posted by: Try to Understand Location: Killeen on Mar 14, 2010 at 08:32 PM

For those who can't understand how good parents can forget their children, please read this...and get some tissues before you begin reading: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html
Posted by: to mother Location: close on Mar 13, 2010 at 03:20 AM

how can u stand up for this man, one of the parents should have had this poor baby, BABY,, yes he has to live with what he done, . what the whole time he was driving did he not hear his child, did he not look in his mirror, this is rediculouse, there is no excuse, a baby was leaft to die in a vehicle, god gives us these children to protect them, not forget about them. we love them , take care of them, cerrish them not simply forget them
Posted by: coca Location: gatesville on Mar 13, 2010 at 03:12 AM

how the hell do u accidentally forget your baby, the mom has him or the dad does either way u say bye n give ur luv, what went on here
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