Bodycam reveals cops’ desperate act as girl, 2, found in hot car

Bodycam footage shows the harrowing last moments of a little girl who died when sleeping in a car as temperatures soared to 43C.

Police bodycam footage shows officers trying to desperately save a little girl who died inside her dad’s scorching hot car.

Christopher Scholtes has been charged with first degree murder after his daughter Parker, 2, was allegedly found “unresponsive” in his Honda SUV outside their home in Arizona, the New York Post reports.

He pleaded not guilty during his first court appearance on Thursday after originally being arrested on a lesser charge of second degree murder.

Footage taken from the scene on the day little Parker died has since been released after being obtained exclusively by Inside Edition.

Christopher Scholtes has been charged with first degree murder after his two-year-old daughter died in a hot car. Picture: Supplied

In the clip, police officers can be seen beginning CPR in a bid to save the toddler.

As first responders perform emergency health care, the 37-year-old father can be seen pacing the property and is heard crying out for his youngest child.

“Please baby, please …” he pleads.

“I can’t believe this … Oh my god.”

The distraught dad can also be seen in the footage telling police he allegedly only left Parker sleeping inside his 2023 vehicle for “30 to 45 minutes max” after returning home from shopping because he didn’t want to wake her.

New police bodycam footage shows cops trying to save girl. Picture: Inside Edition

The dad was seen in the footage holding his head and crying out for the little girl. Picture: Inside Edition

But court records show Scholtes’ other children, aged five and nine, told police that their dad spent the afternoon allegedly playing video games for more than three hours.

Surveillance footage reviewed by police shows he allegedly arrived outside the house shortly after 12.30pm, leaving Parker in the car, KPLC reported.

Temperatures in the area peaked at 42.7C on the day.

Parker was allegedly only discovered when his doctor wife came home at 4pm and found the girl unconscious inside his car, KPLC-TV News reported.

Investigators said Scholtes told them he would often leave his daughter in the car, with the engine and airconditioning on, according to local media reports.

But in this case the car stopped running.

One of his daughters with his wife Erika Scholtes, a 35-year-old anaesthesiologist, claimed to investigators that he had allegedly left them in the car alone about 59 times in the past, KVOA-TV reported.

Parker, 2, died from being in the car for more than three hours, police records claim. Picture: Supplied

Scholtes recently faced court over the murder charge for the first time. He plead not guilty. Picture: KVOA-TV

Parker’s mum, a doctor, was the one who found the toddler ‘unresponsive’ in the car. Picture: Supplied

The dad’s alleged history of leaving his kids in the car appears to be corroborated by text messages with his wife, a report by the New York Post states.

As the little girl was being rushed to the hospital, one from Erika Scholtes scolded him: “I told you to stop leaving them in the car, how many times have I told you.”

Scholtes’ 16-year-old daughter from a previous relationship claimed to KVOA-TV that he would allegedly leave her alone inside of the car, sometimes for hours, since she was as young as seven.

“It makes plenty of sense, actually I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner,” she claimed in the bombshell interview about her half-sister’s death.

“(Once) I had to go sit out in the car for four to five hours and continuously had to restart the car and had only eaten once that day.”

She has Type 1 diabetes.

Scholtes could get life in prison if convicted.