The family of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr. is remembering the little boy as a “joyful,” “brilliant” “happy boy who loved life, who would light up any room that he would enter into.”

The toddler died after he was trapped inside a hot car while in the custody of a worker contracted by the Alabama Department of Human Resources, the state’s child protective services agency, according to the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office and the state Department of Human Resources. The Birmingham Police Department is investigating the death.

K.J. had been left inside a car parked outside a home in Birmingham for several hours during the middle of the day on Tuesday, the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office said.

    • StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      You can take that science and shove it. They strapped a PERSON into a CAR SEAT and left them there for 5 hours after going home to do personal errands. I don’t care about your ‘science’ the story stops with they didn’t take the child home. Fuck them and fuck anyone that defends them. Negligence is negligence is negligence. There is no science for that.