About a month ago, I wrote an article about a scumbag named Christopher Scholtes, 37. In fact, I called him “a scumbag of the highest order.” That’s because he left his young daughter restrained in a hot car in Arizona’s summer heat while he perused the internet for porn and got himself drunk, something that he apparently knew a lot about.
Tomorrow, he was supposed to report to prison, where he would have served a sentence of twenty to thirty years without any possibility of parole. Oh, and he was offered a sweetheart deal of a decade in prison, but rather than hold himself accountable, he threw that away and forced everyone to go through a trial.
Last week, his body was found inside his car, which was parked in a closed garage. Yep, carbon monoxide poisoning, a final act of cowardice from perhaps one of the most horrible men in all of history. That news emerged today, which is why I’m writing about something that happened a week ago.
Rather than man up and take his punishment, he chose the coward’s way out. But then again, he was the type of father who valued porn and booze over the life of his innocent, young child, so expecting him to do the right thing would have been a fool’s errand. Even the prosecutors were angry that he killed himself as opposed to being a man.
Then again, he likely would have died in prison. Once the other inmates found out, and prison guards have a way of “accidentally” letting inmates know when a person who harmed children is amongst them, he would have been found dead and conveniently, no one would have seen anything.
Yes, Scholtes took the easy way out. Rather than accept the brutal beatings and shankings that come to imprisoned child killers, he took a way that is painless and quick. Maybe he knew what was on the horizon for him. He knew that baby killers don’t tend to do well in prison. I would have loved to have seen prison guards “forget” to lock his cell door so that the other inmates could do what needed to be done, but no, he died as he lived: a coward.
I’ve done a lot of things bad when it comes to kids. I neglected my daughter and lost her to adoption, but I never starved her or left her in a hot car. I saw a child being molested and did nothing to stop it, including not reporting it, but I’ve never been the molester. In short, I’ve never actually hurt a child and I certainly have never killed a child, so in this respect, I can absolutely throw the first stone.
I would never have left my daughter, nor any other child, in a hot car, and I never have, so I can absolutely judge this guy. There are lots of stories of late of parents leaving their child to die in a hot car. Some get prison time, some get a walk. I simply cannot understand how or why someone would forget that a child is in the back seat.
It’s my personal opinion that those parents who do leave vulnerable children to literally bake to death never actually forgot their children. It’s my belief that they wanted to get rid of their kid and rather than give the kid up for adoption like I did, they kill the kid. It’s my true belief that no parent forgets their child in a car, they just want the kid gone. And the kid suffers for that.
No, this guy will never face man’s punishment, but he certainly will be held accountable and he will be sent directly to the place where he belongs.