A New York City social worker has been charged with two counts of manslaughter after his one-year-old twins were found dead in the backsea...
A New York City social worker has been charged with two counts of manslaughter after his one-year-old twins were found dead in the backseat of his car.
Juan Rodriguez was also charged with two counts of criminally negligent homicide over the deaths of daughter Mariza and son Phoenix after he accidentally left them inside his hot vehicle for eight hours on Friday.
Rodriguez, 39, is reported to have parked his Honda Accord in The Bronx around 8am, before heading off to work at a nearby Veterans Association hospital.
He returned to his vehicle at 4pm and began driving off, before realizing that his twins were on the backseat.
The babies were dead and 'foaming at the mouth', according to The New York Post.
Juan Rodriguez has been charged with two counts of manslaughter after his one-year-old twins were found dead in the backseat of his car. The father is pictured doting on the children in a Facebook photo taken last year
Rodriguez is pictured with his wife and their twins Mariza and Phoenix in a recent family photo
Rodriguez, 39, is reported to have parked his Honda Accord in The Bronx around 8am, before heading off to work at a nearby Veterans Association hospital. He forgot his twins were inside
The paper reports that Rodriguez began screaming upon discovering his deceased children - prompting a bystander to call 911.
He was arrested and taken into custody. Charges were formally laid against him in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Temperatures in New York City reached 86 degrees Fahrenheit on Friday.
Rodriguez is pictured with his wife and other family members shortly after the births of Mariza and Phoenix
Police covered the silver Honda Accord with a white sheet and scaffolding as they conducted their investigation
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the inside of a car can reach up to 172 degrees if outside temperatures range from 80 to 100 degrees.
On Friday evening, shocked bystanders gathered at the scene, as police cordoned off the area and launched an investigation.
One onlooker told Pix 11: 'How can you leave the children behind and forget? As a father, you're supposed to take care of your family, take care of your responsibilities.'
Doting dad: The social worker is seen with one of the twins on a family day out
Police quickly descended upon the tragic scene, and the father of the twins was arrested and taken into custody
Rodriguez had a third child - a three-year-old boy - who was dropped off in Yonkers earlier in the morning. That child is unharmed.
Facebook photos show Rodriguez as a devoted family man who was frequently pictured doting on the twins.
One image shows the social worker peacefully sleeping with the babies lying on his chest shortly after their births.
Can’t understand how you can drop one child off and not remember there are 2 others. It was a freakin Honda, think it would have been crowded in there with 3 car seats. WTF. And one old year babies don’t make a sound? I don’t get this.....
ReplyDeleteNothing seems to be self-evident to the lower IQ diversity set.
ReplyDeleteLet the punishment fit the crime!
ReplyDeletefuck you......this has nothing to do with IQ or diversity....we live in a fast pace world, and guess what, people get caught up with their day to day work responsibilities, leading unfortunately to this tragedy... this can happen to anyone..... NewsFlash: 9 out of 10 parents who forgot their kiddos in their cars on hot days were guess what: White/Anglo -- see it all the time, never fails.
ReplyDeleteunbelievable! how the hell do you 'forget" your kids in a car? why did no 'bystanders' notice them in the car in those 8 hours? he deserves the death penalty.
ReplyDeleteEveryone can use a little reminder once in a while.
ReplyDeletePerhaps one of those baby on board signs should be placed on the inside drivers window, so he/she sees it prior to exiting the vehicle.
you are kidding right?
ReplyDeleteSubhuman with limited intelligence.
ReplyDeleteCrocodile tears at best! NO REAL PARENT WOULD EVER FORGET ABOUT HIS KIDS for 8 HOURS STRAIGHT!
ReplyDeleteOh PLEASE stop with this "showing pictures of a good dad with his family" shit! THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT and he needs to pay! He needs to die!
ReplyDeleteI've seen whities do sick twisted shit with their kids too! Stop this racial profiling shit!
ReplyDeleteHe's making shit up! "Poor poor dad" sympathy crap he was to portray as! OF COURSE HE KNEW!
ReplyDeleteSOCIAL WORKER !!
ReplyDeleteThat say all !
EVERY one of these 'stories' are complete horseshit and the person responsible should be publicly exterminated.
ReplyDeleteWork White American's don't want to do
ReplyDeleteApparently he met NY's criteria for the position of social worker.... BROWN SKIN AND AN ENGLISH VOCABULARY OF MORE THAN 30 WORDS!
why do you red racist always making everything about race!
ReplyDeletemost deaths of children left in hot or freezing cars are by red people. So dont point fingers when you live in a glass house!
ReplyDeleteYour half-negro, half Jewish public school teacher filled your head with a lot of 'agenda' shit.
ReplyDeleteRace is the determining factor between a German chemist heating a new formula in a beaker and an African cannibal shrinking his neighbor's head in a cauldron.