Texas man ‘left his daughter in 112-degree car covered with blanket’

A father-of-two from Texas has been charged with child endangerment after police say he left his 18-month-old daughter covered with blankets inside a hot car while he was in a supermarket.

Gene Curry, 24, was arrested in Baytown on Wednesday after a passerby spotted his daughter sleeping in the backseat of his car in the parking lot of the Kroger store on Alexander Street and called 911.

Firefighters who responded to the scene rescued the child from the vehicle, where they say it was 112 degrees. The temperature outside was 90 degrees that morning.

Curry is pictured with his kids

Gene Curry, a father-of-two from Texas (pictured with his kids), has been charged with with child endangerment for allegedly leaving his toddler alone in an overheated car for 20 minutes

Caught in a lie: Curry claimed he had only been gone for 10 minutes, but surveillance video from the Baytown Kroger's told a different story (pictured) 

Caught in a lie: Curry claimed he had only been gone for 10 minutes, but surveillance video from the Baytown Kroger’s told a different story (pictured) 

By the time Curry emerged from the store, first responders had rescued his daughter form his car, where it was 112 degrees  

By the time Curry emerged from the store, first responders had rescued his daughter form his car, where it was 112 degrees  

Baytown Police Lt Steve Dorris said first responders initially did not see the girl in the car because she was covered up with two blankets while sleeping in her car seat.

When Curry finally emerged from the supermarket and was questioned by police, he claimed that he had been gone for just 10 minutes, but surveillance video showed that the father was in the store for 18 minutes.

His daughter was treated at the scene and released into the custody of other family members. Witnesses described the little girl as looking ‘beet red’ and crying.

Curry was arrested on a charge of endangering the welfare of a child and booked into the Baytown Jail on $1,000 bail. As of Friday morning, his name was absent from the list of current detainees.

The little girl was described as red in the face, sweaty and crying, but she was unharmed

The little girl was described as red in the face, sweaty and crying, but she was unharmed

Curry made his initial court appearance overnight and was ordered held in jail

Curry made his initial court appearance overnight and was ordered held in jail

Curry’s grandmother, with whom the man appears to be very close based on recent Facebook posts, said her grandson loves his children but there is no excuse for what he had done.

‘We’re not bailing him out, because we think this is the lesson he needs,’ Christine Hayes told KTRK.

Curry made his initial court appearance overnight, where it was stated that his daughter appeared sweaty and had red cheeks when she was extracted from the overheated vehicle 

 



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