Twins found dead in a hot car in the Bronx after their father forgot them

     

Mom of twins left to die in hot car speaks out, defends husband

https://nypost.com/2019/07/28/mom-of-twins-left-to-die-in-hot-car-speaks-out-defends-husband/

                 

The mom of the 1-year-old twins left to die in their dad’s hot car as he went to work called the tragedy “my absolute worst nightmare” — but said that she’s standing by her husband.

“I will never get over this loss and I know he will never forgive himself for this mistake,” said Marissa Rodriguez in a statement to NBC New York of her husband, Juan. “This was a horrific accident, and I need him by my side to go through this together.”

Dad who left twins in hot car is an Iraq war vet described as an ‘amazing’ father

By Tina Moore, Georgett Roberts, Daniel Cassady | New York Post

Rodriguez was still sobbing at his arraignment Saturday night before Bronx Criminal Court Justice Patsy Goldborne.

A disabled Iraq war veteran, he still wore the same turquoise blue polo shirt he’d worn Friday as he cared for homeless and ailing vets at his job at a VA hospital in Kingsbridge — oblivious that his twins were in the back seat of his Honda Accord in the parking lot.

'I blanked out:' pleads not guilty in hot car deaths of twins in the Bronx - NEWS 12 BRONX

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Police say they had body temperatures reaching 108 degrees when they died.

      R.I.P. BABY MARIZA AND PHOENIX 

FATHER JUAN RODRIGUEZ, 39 of ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY

HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS EACH OF CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT 

HOMICIDE AND MANSLAUGHTER 

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- PL 125.15 01, FELONY, 2 COUNTS, 

C FELONY, 2 COUNTS ( DESCRIPTION: MANSL: rcklessly Cse Death)

- PL 125.10 00, FELONY 2 COUNTS, 

E FELONY, 2 COUNTS ( DESCRIPTION: Crmnally Hmicide)

PL 260.10 01, MISDEMEANOR, 2 COUNTS, 

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Twins found dead in a hot car in the Bronx after their father forgot them

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/27/dad-of-twin-babies-found-dead-in-bronx-car-hit-with-manslaughter-homicide-charges/

The father whose 1-year-old twins died after he allegedly forgot them inside a hot car in the Bronx for eight hours on Friday has been charged in their deaths, police said.

Juan Rodriguez, 39, was charged with two counts each of criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter for leaving his infant twins, Mariza and Phoenix, in the back seat of his Honda Accord while he was inside James J. Peters VA Hospital in Kingsbridge, where he works as a social worker.

The father, who lives in Rockland County, told cops he parked at his job at 8 a.m.

He only realized he left his kids behind once he drove off after work at about 4 p.m., police said.

passerby called police after witnessing Rodriguez screaming on the side of the road at Kingsbridge Terrace and Kingsbridge Road, police said.

Emergency crews were called to the scene at Kingsbridge Road and Kingsbridge Terrace just after 4 p.m. The children, 1-year-old Mariza and Phoenix Rodriguez, were determined to be dead on arrival, according to police.

"I came in running to see what happened and all of a sudden I see two kids in the vehicle, and a lady trying to give CPR," says Anthony Martinez, a witness. "The lady starts weeping and crying. She's saying there's no hope for the kids. And when I go up and see the vehicle, the kids were like burnt and blue in the face. They had no oxygen. Everyone started crying from there on."

The babies weren’t breathing and were foaming at the mouth when EMS arrived. They were pronounced dead on scene.