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6-year-old girl strangles baby brother to death with seatbelt while dad shopped for clothes; father charged

The 6-year-old daughter told the authorities that she put the seat belt around her brother when he started crying to make him stop
UPDATED NOV 20, 2018

A father in Texas has been charged with child abandonment after his 6-year-old daughter strangled her 1-year-old brother with a seatbelt when he had left them alone in the car to go shopping for more than an hour and half.

The victim of homicide by strangulation was identified as Adrian Middleton Jr. His father, Adrian Dreshaun Middleton, 26, from Houston was arrested last week but was not in police custody as of November 19 in connection with the incident that took place on May 20 in Baytown, Harris County. 

Middleton initially told authorities that he gave his children snacks and water, turned up the air conditioning and played a movie for them before he left them alone in the car for only 30 to 45 minutes to go inside the Family Thrift Store in the 12000 block of the East Freeway.

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