According to a police affidavit released Monday, a Wichita, Kansas man did not remember that he left his foster daughter inside his car until he heard a crying child on "Game of Thrones", Yahoo reports.
The temperature was around 90 degrees on that day – July 24 – and the 10-month-old died of hyperthermia. Seth Jackson faces first-degree murder charges.
The affidavit shows that Jackson called his partner earlier that day and told him that he would pick up the 10-month-old from the babysitter after he took their five-year-old adopted child to a doctor's appointment.
Jackson, 29, picked up the 10-month-old girl and a pizza, and drove home. According to his partner, Jackson also picked up an undisclosed amount of marijuana that day.
The foster dad entered the house with only the five-year-old and the pizza, leaving the 10-month-old in the car.
Jackson's partner reported that the two of them watched one and a half episodes of the hit HBO show "Game of Thrones," and smoked marijuana. It was the sound of a child crying on the television show that spurred Jackson's memory of his foster daughter, who had been in the locked car with the windows up for over two hours.
The partner said the girl was hot to the touch and stiff when he pulled her from the car and into the home. He called 911, and Jackson attempted CPR, but could not get the girl's mouth open.
Firefighters attempted to revive the infant, but were unsuccessful. An autopsy showed that she died of hyperthermia.
Jackson's partner told police that they had been the girl's foster parents since she was two weeks old, and were trying to adopt her. In addition to the 10-month-old foster child and the five-year-old adopted child, the couple has three other foster children – ages three, five, and 18 – and another adopted child, age seven.
Jackson is being held on $250,000 bail.
