TV show alerted dad to baby left in car

A child crying on the television show Game of Thrones jogged a foster parent’s memory that he had left a 10-month-old girl inside a sweltering car while he and his partner smoked marijuana at their house, a police affidavit says.

Seth Jackson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder in the July 24 death in Wichita, Kansas. Police say the girl was inside the car with the windows up for more than two hours.. An autopsy showed she died of hyperthermia due to heat exposure.

The affidavit says Jackson’s partner told police that Jackson called that day to let him know he would be picking the 10-month-old up from the baby sitter after taking their five-year-old adopted child to a doctor’s appointment. Jackson told police that when he arrived home, he locked the car and went inside with his five-year-old.

Jackson’s partner said the pair watched one and a half episodes of Games of Thrones and smoked marijuana. The partner told police Jackson realised he had left the baby in the car when he heard a child crying on the show.

The men rushed outside, and his partner removed the child. As he called 911, Jackson attempted CPR but could not get the child’s mouth open, police said.

Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said the first-degree murder charge was warranted because the child died during the commission of an inherently dangerous felony, aggravated endangering of a child. The case is not charged as intentional murder.