Arkansas couple charged with murder after leaving FOUR children in hot car, leading to death of 2-year-old

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  • Deja and Justin Rollins are charged pinch execution successful nan decease of their 2-year-old
  • They were already facing kid maltreatment and neglect charges 

By Melissa Koenig For Dailymail.Com

Published: 20:24 EDT, 9 July 2024 | Updated: 01:31 EDT, 10 July 2024

An Arkansas mates has been charged pinch murder, aft they near 4 children successful a basking car - resulting successful nan decease of their 2-year-old.

Deja, 27, and Justin Rollins, 29, had already been facing kid maltreatment and neglect charges for allegedly leaving their children unattended successful nan car extracurricular of Arkansas Children's Hospital connected Sunday, KARK reports.

Officers said they responded to nan segment aft receiving reports that different of nan children, an unidentified three-year-old, was brought successful for urgent treatment.

During nan people of their investigation, nan Jacksonville constabulary learned that nan mates had 4 different children - ages 2, 4, 7 and 10 - but nan mates allegedly refused to show nan cops wherever nan children were.

Justin, left, and Deja Rollins, right, are facing execution charges for nan decease of their two-year-old, who was near successful a basking car pinch his siblings connected Sunday

Police later recovered nan children wrong a car successful nan hospital's parking lot, and alerted infirmary information - who were capable to get nan car open, according to Arkansas Online. 

All of those children suffered power exhaustion, and were treated astatine nan hospital, according to KATV.

But nan adjacent day, 2-year-old Jay'Dien Rollins was pronounced dead.

Over nan people of an ensuing investigation, constabulary besides recovered a malnourished canine wrong their Jacksonville home, and turned it complete to Jacksonville Animal Services.

Their children, ages 2, 4, 7 and 10 were recovered wrong a car successful nan parking batch of Arkansas Children's Hospital

The parents are now each facing 5 counts of first-degree home battery, 5 counts of neglect of a susceptible person, 5 counts of endangering nan use of a minor, 1 count of animal cruelty and 1 count of obstructing authorities operations.

They pleaded not blameworthy to nan execution charges astatine a proceeding connected Tuesday - conscionable 1 time aft they entered a not blameworthy plea connected nan earlier charges.

Both Deja and Justin are now being held astatine nan Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility without bond.

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