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FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ala. (WAFF) - UPDATE (10/05/2020): Preliminary hearings for 20-year-old Dakota Heath Fowler and 21-year-old Brandi Michelle Burks were held on Monday.The cases for both suspects were bound over to a grand jury for an indictment decision. Fowler and Burks each face manslaughter charges in the case.UPDATE (8/12/2020): The Franklin County Sheriff released new information on the recent death of a child who was left in his parents car overnight.The three-year-old boy was believed to be left in the hot car between the hours of 11:30 p.m. on August 8 until 3 p.m. the following afternoon. The father and mother gave statements that led investigators to determine they may have forgotten about the child being in the vehicle when they arrived home from a friend’s house around the hour of the night before.The results of the investigation will be submitted to and reviewed by a Franklin County Grand Jury.The parents are being held in the Franklin County Jail on a $500,000 bond.ORIGINAL: Two Franklin County parents face criminal charges after their 3-year-old child was found dead in a hot car Sunday.20-year-old Dakota Heath Fowler and 21-year-old Brandi Michelle Burks are both charged with manslaughter.The pair told Franklin County Deputies that they put their 3-year-old boy to bed around midnight Saturday. When they awoke Sunday around 3 p.m. they found the boy in their car.The Sheriff’s Office says they were called to respond around 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Emergency medical personnel tried to provide aid, but the child was already dead.Franklin County Sheriff Shannon Oliver says the parents’ story doesn’t add up.“It was reported that they put the child to bed at midnight and then they went to sleep and slept until 2 or 3:00 PM that day and you know that’s a long time for nobody to have any contact with that child,” said Oliver.Sheriff Oliver says the parents told his deputies when they woke up, they couldn’t find their 3-year-old toddler, until they looked inside a vehicle parked outside of their apartment on Church Street in the town of Hodges, Alabama.“It had been in there for several hours as you know the temperatures yesterday inside a vehicle would’ve been well over triple digits,” said Sheriff Oliver.We talked with a neighbor, the landlord for the family, and she says the toddler who died is named Bentley.“He was my special person. I’ve known him ever since he was born. He was a cool little boy he was my favorite and I miss him dearly today for sure,” said Becky Palmer.Becky saw all of the sheriff deputies and first responders who showed up to the apartment Sunday afternoon.“A lot of Hodges rescue squad people. There was about 12 vehicles out there, people were out there trying to help those people,” said Palmer.Sheriff Oliver says the child’s body was sent in for a forensics autopsy and that the case remains under investigation.Members of law enforcement want to remind you to never leave a child or pet inside of a car unattended. Doing so is a crime.Copyright 2020 WAFF. All rights reserved.

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ala. (WAFF) - UPDATE (10/05/2020): Preliminary hearings for 20-year-old Dakota Heath Fowler and 21-year-old Brandi Michelle Burks were held on Monday.The cases for both suspects were bound over to a grand jury for an indictment decision. Fowler and Burks each face manslaughter charges in the case.UPDATE (8/12/2020): The Franklin County Sheriff released new information on the recent death of a child who was left in his parents car overnight.The three-year-old boy was believed to be left in the hot car between the hours of 11:30 p.m. on August 8 until 3 p.m. the following...

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