{"id":94852,"date":"2016-12-26T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T00:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=94852"},"modified":"2016-12-26T19:35:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T00:35:02","slug":"father-found-guilty-hot-car-death-2-year-old-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/father-found-guilty-hot-car-death-2-year-old-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Found Guilty In Hot Car Death of His 2-Year-Old Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"
BALTIMORE — This week Wilbert Carter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and confining a child unattended.<\/p>\n
He was accused of leaving his 2-year-old child unattended in a locked car for 16 hours. Special Victims Unit Chief Anne Colt Leitess prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, Carter voluntarily left his sister\u2019s home with his two-year-old daughter around midnight on June 22, 2015 heavily intoxicated, parked his car in the 3700 block of Brenden Avenue, and staggered to a woman\u2019s porch where he passed out.<\/p>\n
The woman told investigators that she heard knocking at her door at 3:00 a.m. but did not answer her door. At 7:00 a.m., she discovered Carter passed out on her porch smelling of alcohol. After she awakened Carter, she drove him to his home where he slept until 4:00 p.m. When Carter awoke, he realized his daughter was missing and ran back to his car, where he found his daughter deceased\u2014still strapped in her car seat.<\/p>\n