Sack of st Florida dad who left toddler to die in hot car while he got drinks went back to same bar right after tragedy: cops
A Florida dad arrested for allegedly leaving his helpless young son to die in a hot car for hours while he got a haircut and went to a bar was described as “garbage” by officials who revealed the heartless father returned to the local watering hole following the tot’s horrific, preventable death.Scott Allen Gardner is accused of leaving 18-month-old Sebastian inside his locked truck while he galivanted around Ormond Beach, Florida on June 6, getting a fresh cut and stopping by Hanky Panky’s Lounge for some drinks, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said.Gardner, 33, a father for less than two years, was given a few new titles after his arrest.“I want to start out by saying that this father is a human piece of garbage and he is a lying sack of s–t,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said during a press conference Monday.Gardner drove his truck to Classic Cuts on Ocean Shore Blvd and Brooks Drive at around 11:30 a.m., leaving his son in the vehicle, officials revealed.The father then crossed the street, entering Hanky Panky’s Lounge around 12 p.m.
where he ordered at least two rounds of beer and shots of Fireball.Witnesses told police they never saw Sebastian in the car, despite Gardner bringing his son into the bar on multiple occasions.Gardner, at one point, stepped outside to look at a car crash in the parking lot, but never went to check on his son, Chitwood told reporters“How in the world can you be so messed up that you would allow your child to sit back there in Florida, in 90-degree weather, walk outside and check on some car but never go near your son?” he questioned.After paying for his drinks, Gardner drove back to his mother’s home, a mile southwest of the bar.Little Sebastian was estimated to have been in the car for over three hours, as the outside temperatures reached 92 degrees.Gardner only discovered his son wasn’t breathing when driving back to his mother’s home.He frantically called 911 to report the deadly medical e...