Father Pleads Guilty to Infant Car Death

AUSTIN, TX - An Austin father has pleaded guilty to leaving his 18-month-old boy in the family’s vehicle for more than six hours in the August heat. The father said the he forgot about the boy who died from hyperthermia.

Kesen Hu, 34, plead guilty to misdemeanor endangering a child. He will receive two years probation with no jail time. A Williamson County grand jury indicted Hu on two counts of criminally negligent homicide and endangering a child back in February.

Hu was arrested a few days after his son's death, but was later released on bail.

Police say Hu was distracted on his way to work up at Freescale in North Austin and left his infant son inside the car on a hot August day. Hu told police that he remembered around 4pm that his son was in the car and raced outside into the parking lot, but it was too late. A woman reported seeing a child left in a car in the parking lot at Freescale. Guards searched for the child but could not find the car.

Hu and his attorney have said that what happened is a fatal oversight, but doesn't consitute a crime.

Conditions of the probation are:

1) He must participate in developing a PSA on the dangers of leaving a child in a car in the Texas heat.

2) He can't drive using any type of electronic device (cell phone) and can't drive alone with a child younger than 10-years-old in the vehicle.

3) He must also do 60 hours of community service