{"id":93840,"date":"2025-07-26T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/93840\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:24:14","slug":"man-arrested-after-leaving-children-in-hot-car-phoenix-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/93840\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after leaving children in hot car, Phoenix police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/85383459007-phoenix-police-find-four-children-under-10-in-a-closed-car-on-july-24-2025-the-father-wa.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Phoenix police find 4 kids under age 10 in a closed car in summer<\/p>\n<p>Officers with the Phoenix Police Department found four children under the age of 10 in a closed car on July 24, 2025. The father was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Provided by Phoenix Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Four children left inside a parked vehicle that was baking at about 125 degrees in a Phoenix neighborhood on July 24 were expected to be OK after being rescued by police and firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>Their father and owner of the vehicle, 38-year-old Ascencio Largo, was arrested that same day and was facing eight felony charges related to child abuse, according to the Phoenix Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>At around 3:40 p.m., authorities found the four children, all under 10, in the car parked by a home near 24th and Madison streets, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle had no air conditioning running while the windows were rolled up, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong>News alerts in your inbox:<\/strong>\u00a0Don&#8217;t miss the important news of the day. Sign up for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profile.azcentral.com\/newsletters\/news-alerts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">azcentral newsletter alerts<\/a>\u00a0to be in the know.<\/p>\n<p>After the children were removed from the car, they were given water and placed into a patrol vehicle with running air conditioning to cool down, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix firefighters arrived to provide medical treatment for the kids, who each had a temperature nearing 100 degrees, police said. The children were taken to a hospital for further treatment and evaluation for heat-related issues, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The department said all the children were expected to be fine.<\/p>\n<p>Officers later identified Largo as the car&#8217;s owner, locating him inside a nearby business, according to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Largo had reportedly been there for nearly an hour before police arrived and found the children, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Child Safety was also conducting a separate investigation, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix police find 4 kids under age 10 in a closed car in summer Officers with the Phoenix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[567,5229,5643,11307,1587,8746,4471,20020,4219,11313,3040,5375,2096,8142,3228,2936,425,728,50,940,1589,11311,7207,646,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,8572,8576],"class_list":{"0":"post-93840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-abuse","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arrests","12":"tag-az","13":"tag-az-now","14":"tag-child","15":"tag-child-abuse","16":"tag-crime","17":"tag-crime-u0026-justice","18":"tag-department","19":"tag-enforcement","20":"tag-heat","21":"tag-justice","22":"tag-law","23":"tag-law-enforcement","24":"tag-local","25":"tag-local-news","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-now","28":"tag-phoenix","29":"tag-phoenix-police-department","30":"tag-police","31":"tag-u0026","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-united-states-of-america","34":"tag-unitedstates","35":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","36":"tag-us","37":"tag-usa","38":"tag-violence","39":"tag-violence-u0026-abuse"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114919051373050751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}