MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - A court...
the morning of July 8, Harrison was asked by his wife, Carol, to drop Chase off at the child daycare center on his way to work. On the way, he stopped off at a drycleaner's, and then, forgetting that his son was in the car, continued to work and headed straight into the office.Carol usually took Chase to the center, according to court reports.
The child remained in the car for nine hours on a 90-degree day, according to earlier investigative reports.
The boy, born Dmitry Yakolev and renamed after his adoption, had been living in a children's home in northwest Russia's Pskov Region until the Harrisons adopted him just three months prior to his death. He was developmentally delayed and had not started talking.
Over the last 10 years in the United States there have been approximately 230 cases of parents locking their children in cars on a hot day.
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