COOPER HARRIS, 2, DIES IN HOT CAR: JUSTIN HARRIS CHARGED WITH MURDER

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A Georgia father was booked on murder charges early Thursday after leaving his son all day in a hot car.

Justin Ross Harris, 33, of Marietta, Ga., went to work at around 9 a.m. Wednesday with his 22-month-old son in the back seat of his sport utility vehicle, forgetting to drop him off at day care, said Sgt. Dana Pierce of Cobb County Police. As he was driving home around 4 p.m., he noticed that his son was still in his child seat, unresponsive.

He pulled over at a shopping center parking lot and tried to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, but the child, whose name was not released, was pronounced dead at the scene.

"It is a very fine line sometimes between neglect and negligence ... and whether that negligence reaches the level of criminal prosecution," Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said Thursday.

Police had to restrain Harris because he was so distraught and took him into custody for questioning then.

...and here's another one. I can't help but notice the differences in how it's being handled.

The toddler's death was the second this week of a child in a hot car. On Monday, a 9-month-old girl died in Rockledge, Fla., after her father forgot to drop her off at her grandmother's house, leaving her in the back seat of his pickup truck for several hours as he worked at his job as a telephone solicitor for the Fraternal Order of Police.

As of Thursday, no charges had been filed against Steven Lillie, 31, of Cocoa, Fla. Rockledge Police say they still are investigating the death and allowing Lillie and his girlfriend, the child's mother, to grieve the loss.

"She's been in the car for hours, and I absolutely forgot about her," Lillie said during a 9-1-1 call Monday to police dispatchers. "She's not alive."

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