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SALT LAKE CITY — An arrest warrant has been issued for a Salt Lake man who police say put his 2-year-old daughter in his car in July to run an errand, but then went back inside his home and passed out from drinking too much.
Andrew Nelson Mavor, 37, was charged Wednesday in 3rd District Court with aggravated child abuse, a second-degree felony.
On July 13, a woman received a call asking her to check on Mavor and his daughter. The woman tried calling Mavor several times but no one answered, according to charging documents. She then went to his residence in Salt Lake City and after pounding on the door and again not getting a response, spotted him through a window passed out on a bed, the charges state.
The woman opened the window and yelled at Mavor until he woke up. She then asked where his daughter was.
"Mavor was unsure and began looking under clothing and blankets. (The woman) decided to check the car and found (the girl) buckled into her car seat with the car off, windows up, and no A/C. (The woman) observed that (the girl) was dripping with sweat and screaming in her car seat," charging documents state.
When the woman got the girl out of the car, she was "extremely hot to the touch," the charges state.
Mavor admitted to drinking since early that morning and said he had put the girl in the car that afternoon to run an errand, but went back inside his residence "and got a bunch of phone calls, then he laid down on his bed," according to the charges.
"In this case, the defendant was at home with his 2-year-old child and chose to drink almost an entire bottle of vodka while he was responsible for the care of the child. The defendant placed the child in a black car, parked on the street in approximately 90-degree heat, and left the child in the car while it was not on and all of the windows were rolled up and went inside and passed out on his bed for an unknown amount of time. When confronted, the defendant did not know where his child was," prosecutors concluded in their charges.
