A father whose foster daughter died in a sweltering car as he smoked marijuana and watched Game Of Thrones has been jailed.
Seth Jackson, 29, admitted the involuntary manslaughter of Kadillak Poe-Jones but begged a judge not to jail him insisting: ‘I’m not a monster.’
He had originally been charged with murder but was jailed for just under three years.
Police said Jackson left the baby in a vehicle in Wichita, Kansas, for several hours on July 24 as temperatures in the city hovered around [90 F].
Jackson had picked up marijuana from a dealer and then returned home but began smoking it without taking taking Kadillak out of the car, prosecutors said.
Jackson told police he forgot the girl was in the car and only realised when he saw a child on the Game Of Thrones episode he was watching with his partner Payton Schroeder.
The teaching assistant rushed back to the car, but Kadillak was dead.
An autopsy has revealed that Kadillak , who Jackson had been fostering since she was two-weeks-old -died due to heat exposure.
On Friday, Jackson wept as he begged to be spared prison, telling a packed courtroom: ‘Your honour, I’m a broken man, pleading here for my life.’
Jailing Jackson, the judge said that while Jackson may not have intentionally abandoned Kadillak, it was not an accident.
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Do you think it was an accident that he left the baby in the vehicle? Why / Why not?