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Msmith · 08-05-2014, 08:59 AM

" WICHITA, Kan. - A child crying on the television show "Game of Thrones" jogged a foster parent's memory that he had left a 10-month-old girl inside a sweltering car while he and his partner smoked marijuana at their house, a police affidavit released Monday says.

Seth Jackson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder in the July 24 death in Wichita, Kan. No charges have been filed against his partner. CBS affiliate KWCH reports Jackson posted bond on Saturday.

Police say Kadillak Poe-Jones was inside the car with the windows up for more than two hours, according to the station. It was around 90 degrees outside. An autopsy showed the girl died of hyperthermia due to heat exposure.

The affidavit says Jackson's partner told police that Jackson called that day to let him know he would be picking the 10-month-old up from the babysitter after taking their 5-year-old adopted child to a doctor's appointment. Jackson told police that when he arrived home, he locked the car and went inside with his 5-year-old and the pizza.

Jackson's partner said he and Jackson watched one and a half episodes of "Games of Thrones" and smoked marijuana Jackson had picked up that day, according to the affidavit. The partner told police Jackson realized he had left the 10-month-old outside in the car when he heard a child crying on the TV show.

The men rushed outside, Jackson unlocked the vehicle and his partner removed the child.

The partner told investigators the girl was hot and stiff when he grabbed her from the car and carried her into the house. As he called 911, Jackson attempted CPR but could not get the child's mouth open, according to the affidavit filed by Wichita police detective Ryan Schomaker.

Officers who responded found Jackson still on the phone when they arrived, making calls and repeatedly stating, "I left her in the car, she's dead, she's dead," according to the affidavit.

Meanwhile, the girl was unresponsive and lying on her back on the couch. Firefighters moved the girl from the couch to the floor once they arrived and attempted to revive her.

Later in an interview at police headquarters, Jackson's partner told detectives he and Jackson had been foster parents to the 10-month-old girl since she was 2 weeks old. Police have not released the child's name and documents in the case only use her initials.

Although the girl died of hyperthermia, Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said the first-degree murder charge was warranted because the child died during the commission of an inherently dangerous felony, aggravated endangering of a child. The case is not charged as intentional murder.

Jackson's defense attorney, Leslie Hulnick, called the charges "ludicrous." He said his client has been on suicide watch in the days since the incident.

"There is not one scintilla of intent on behalf of my client to hurt or harm any of those children," Hulnick told KWCH. "This is a young man who's never been in any trouble before. He is a church-goer.... [Jackson] is looking at the same sentence as if he walked into somebody's home or a store, pulled out a firearm and shot them. These are two horses of a very different color."

In addition to the 10-month-old, who they were trying to adopt, Jackson and his partner had five other children in their care. They had three other foster children ages 3, 5 and 18, and two adopted children ages 5 and 7. The two younger foster children were visiting other relatives at the time the 10-month-old died.

Prosecutors and Jackson's attorneys agree the circumstances are entirely different than a widely publicized case in Georgia, where a father faces murder and child cruelty charges on suspicion of intentionally leaving a 22-month-old boy inside a hot car last month as he went to work."

Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/game-of-...by-in-hot-car/

I know foster care is a big business. But what qualifiers being set for foster parents? It seems to me that these two individuals have no parental instincts nor skills to care for a child at all.

**LoneWolf** · 08-05-2014, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Kansas allowed two homos access to (and custody thereof) SIX children?!?!?!?!?!?!

I was waiting for you to show up in this thread. You really are a pathetic piece of shit.

Prison Bitch · 08-05-2014, 01:13 PM

Lets reserve the harsh attacks for the homo who essentially murders a child so he could smoke pot instead. You're a piece of shit too but I won't call you that again unless I find out you killed some little one.

Eleazar · 08-05-2014, 01:24 PM

If only the war on drugs would stop... then he could smoke openly in the car while driving his kids around.

Fish · 08-05-2014, 01:28 PM

Totally inappropriate:

**alnorth** · 08-05-2014, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Cochise

I doubt these are all accidents.

The one in Georgia was obviously intentional, but most of them probably aren't.

This one in Kansas looks like an obvious accident. If you were going to do this, you probably wouldn't have the cops walk into a cloud of smoke in your house.

King_Chief_Fan · 08-05-2014, 01:50 PM

How do dope smokers get the opportunity to have foster children?

Not sure why the guy is on suicide watch....let him drop.

**alnorth** · 08-05-2014, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by King_Chief_Fan

How do dope smokers get the opportunity to have foster children?

Not sure why the guy is on suicide watch....let him drop.

I'm assuming the state wasn't aware of their drug use.

Beyond that though, there's not a lot of people who want to be foster parents, so the state probably had to have low standards. The only alternative is to bring back orphanages.

**Ming the Merciless** · 08-05-2014, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by MagicHef

I worry nearly every time that I'll drop dead of an aneurysm or something between the time I get out of my door and get to my kid's door and no one responding to the dead body in the parking lot will think to look in the car.

I can't envision a situation where I would ever forget that one of my kids was in the car.

Me too man...sounds like you and I have the same anxieties.....

I worry about every little sound they make...I think about them so often....I just can't understand this shit

MagicHef · 08-05-2014, 02:20 PM

How did neither of them realize that the baby wasn't around for over 2 hours? The 1st guy called the 2nd to tell him he was picking up the baby, and somehow both of them forgot about this completely when he got home?

Honestly, knowing my 4 year old, I can't even picture the 5 year old that he did manage to get out of the car not saying anything about the missing baby for 2 hours.

Eleazar · 08-05-2014, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by MagicHef

How did neither of them realize that the baby wasn't around for over 2 hours?

Is it really surprising that a couple of stoners forgot something?

MagicHef · 08-05-2014, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Cochise

Is it really surprising that a couple of stoners forgot something?

I just can't imagine getting a call from my wife saying she's picking up one of the kids, then not noticing when she arrives, sans kid.

The whole pot thing seems fishy to me. Basically the only possible defense for leaving a child in a car is "we forgot", which is hard to believe in most circumstances. This kind of seems like "Really, we totally forgot. You know, marijuana."

I mean, according to the story, there were the two men, an 18 year old, a 7 year old, and the 5 year old at home. Were they all high, from the moment they pulled up?

Marcellus · 08-05-2014, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Pawnmower

Ughh....

I am a new parent, father of a 2 year old...

I am not the most responsible person, how they let me walk out of the hospital with a 2 year old and did not give me any kind of owner's manual still troubles me...but...

I can't see how the hell this happens....when I am in the car with my son...I am talking to him....laughing with him, playing songs.....etc...looking at him in the rear-view...

The 1st thing I want do when I get wherever is get him out of the car.

I honestly was extremely worried about having a kid because I can forget where my keys are, even if theyre in my hand...

But theres something about having a kid that makes it almost literally impossible to forget them...

Which brings me back around to...I simply do not understand how this shit happens by accident....

Murder seems a little strong, if it is truly an accident though...(based on my understanding of the crime of murder).

It seems like gross neglect or some type of extreme manslaughter would be more appropriate than murder.

What a ****ed up situation

Neither he nor his partner "had a kid". They picked oen up from the state along with a paycheck.

HTF did the other dumbass not think to ask, where is Kadillak?

KChiefer · 08-05-2014, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Marcellus

HTF did the other dumbass not think to ask, where is Kadillak?

Because they were "caring" for 6 kids. They probably just think, 'oh, so-and-so must be with the other kids...wherever they're at...'

And yeah, sadly some foster parents see these kids as $$$. It'd be like forgetting where you put your wallet.

08-05-2014, 08:59 AM
Msmith Veteran Join Date: Jan 2004 Casino cash: $9148035	Another dead baby in the car seat accident " WICHITA, Kan. - A child crying on the television show "Game of Thrones" jogged a foster parent's memory that he had left a 10-month-old girl inside a sweltering car while he and his partner smoked marijuana at their house, a police affidavit released Monday says. Seth Jackson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder in the July 24 death in Wichita, Kan. No charges have been filed against his partner. CBS affiliate KWCH reports Jackson posted bond on Saturday. Police say Kadillak Poe-Jones was inside the car with the windows up for more than two hours, according to the station. It was around 90 degrees outside. An autopsy showed the girl died of hyperthermia due to heat exposure. The affidavit says Jackson's partner told police that Jackson called that day to let him know he would be picking the 10-month-old up from the babysitter after taking their 5-year-old adopted child to a doctor's appointment. Jackson told police that when he arrived home, he locked the car and went inside with his 5-year-old and the pizza. Jackson's partner said he and Jackson watched one and a half episodes of "Games of Thrones" and smoked marijuana Jackson had picked up that day, according to the affidavit. The partner told police Jackson realized he had left the 10-month-old outside in the car when he heard a child crying on the TV show. The men rushed outside, Jackson unlocked the vehicle and his partner removed the child. The partner told investigators the girl was hot and stiff when he grabbed her from the car and carried her into the house. As he called 911, Jackson attempted CPR but could not get the child's mouth open, according to the affidavit filed by Wichita police detective Ryan Schomaker. Officers who responded found Jackson still on the phone when they arrived, making calls and repeatedly stating, "I left her in the car, she's dead, she's dead," according to the affidavit. Meanwhile, the girl was unresponsive and lying on her back on the couch. Firefighters moved the girl from the couch to the floor once they arrived and attempted to revive her. Later in an interview at police headquarters, Jackson's partner told detectives he and Jackson had been foster parents to the 10-month-old girl since she was 2 weeks old. Police have not released the child's name and documents in the case only use her initials. Although the girl died of hyperthermia, Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said the first-degree murder charge was warranted because the child died during the commission of an inherently dangerous felony, aggravated endangering of a child. The case is not charged as intentional murder. Jackson's defense attorney, Leslie Hulnick, called the charges "ludicrous." He said his client has been on suicide watch in the days since the incident. "There is not one scintilla of intent on behalf of my client to hurt or harm any of those children," Hulnick told KWCH. "This is a young man who's never been in any trouble before. He is a church-goer.... [Jackson] is looking at the same sentence as if he walked into somebody's home or a store, pulled out a firearm and shot them. These are two horses of a very different color." In addition to the 10-month-old, who they were trying to adopt, Jackson and his partner had five other children in their care. They had three other foster children ages 3, 5 and 18, and two adopted children ages 5 and 7. The two younger foster children were visiting other relatives at the time the 10-month-old died. Prosecutors and Jackson's attorneys agree the circumstances are entirely different than a widely publicized case in Georgia, where a father faces murder and child cruelty charges on suspicion of intentionally leaving a 22-month-old boy inside a hot car last month as he went to work." Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/game-of-...by-in-hot-car/ I know foster care is a big business. But what qualifiers being set for foster parents? It seems to me that these two individuals have no parental instincts nor skills to care for a child at all.
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