Tag: HOT CAR DEATH

Kela Stanford, 55, the woman accused in a hot car death of a child in the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) last summer, is set for a pretrial hearing in August.

The woman accused in a hot car death last summer was re-arrested after an indictment erroneously gave her no bond, according to court documents.

Kela Stanford, 54, the contract driver for the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR), has been charged with a Class B felony over a week after she allegedly returned home with a three-year-old boy after a scheduled visitation with his biological father and left him to die in the hot car.

Harris served seven and a half years in the Macon State Prison and was released Sunday.

The man charged in the death of his two-year-old son after the child was left in a hot car Monday is asking the judge in the case for a bond reduction.

The Atmore Police Department is investigating the death of a child that was left in a hot car Monday.

The Oneonta Police Department, the Blount County Sheriff's Office, Blount County DHR and the Blount County District Attorney's Office are investigating after a child was found dead in a hot car.

Georgia's highest court on Wednesday overturned the murder and child cruelty convictions against a man whose toddler son died after he left him in a hot car for hours, saying the jury saw evidence that was “extremely and unfairly prejudicial.”