for his 8 month old.

Shame on this millennial!

2nd degree murder or involuntary manslaughter perhaps?

For adults much less children.

Long jail sentence is due.

But not here.

whose homes are too hot in the summer?

Are there places they go can 24 hours a day that are safe?

Park fountain, mall, store, library, gas station, friends house, relative, neighbour, I think you see my point.

comes intolerable?

In colder climes they have programs to pay for heat for poor people. Do they have something like this in Florida to pay for cooling?

Florida Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
https://www.benefits.gov/benefits/benefit-details/1553

I have no idea if they actually have money to use or what the realistic requirements are to get help.

The strange thing to me is that it would have been slightly cooler in that house with the windows open. I grew up not all that far from where this family lives, though more in the center of the state, farther from the sea breezes. We had no air conditioning at all in the house where I grew up, none in the schools either. We opened windows and used fans to move the air through the house.

Granted, it seems to be running hotter these days than when I was a kid. The high in Largo on Friday was 103, the day after the child died. But with windows open and fans running it would have been cooler than the 109 that was reported in the room where the baby was.

But if it's 109 outside -- which could happen -- a fan wouldn't accomplish much.

But this is the same to me as the nutty lady letting her baby die in a hot car at a hair appointment.

We cannot stay outdoors but for a few minutes...it is suffocating!

cool water, and then allowing them to have cool fruit, applesauce or the like. Also going to the nearest cool place with air conditioning. They used to go to malls for the air conditioning in heat waves. But it looks like he took no pains at all to help the kids.

My mother tells stories of spending hours everyday at K-Mart one summer when I was little because they were the closest store with air conditioning. She said she knew the stock better than they did by September.

We also used to keep the bathtub full of cool water and when it got unbearable, my sister and I could play in the tub like it was a swimming pool.

There were things he could have done. Things any sensible, caring adult would do. He could have even gone to the hospital ER and sat in the waiting room. OTOH, filth and bugs don't show up over night, so sensible and caring were probably not in his wheelhouse. I would like to know more about why CPS left the children there. They told him to keep the children in another room. Did the living room have air conditioning? If the entire house was hot, why didn't they suggest alternatives for where they could go? Or did they, and that's not being reported?

He's at fault. Period. But did CPS just say, "Boy it's hot, you should do something about that." and walk away? Because if that's the case, they share a little bit of the blame.