COOPER HARRIS, 2, DIES IN HOT CAR: JUSTIN HARRIS CHARGED WITH MURDER

[HairOfTheDog]

He's a piece of shit and this was clearly premeditated.

I hope the jury sees through his BS and does the right thing.

I think his ex-wife's testimony in court today and the images of father and son shown to the jury may help Ross Harris avoid a first degree murder conviction.



^ Leanna Taylor told the jury she tried to be strong for Justin Ross Harris after learning on June 18, 2014, that their only child was dead after Harris left the boy in his car’s back seat all day after driving to work.

“I knew he was never going to forgive himself,” Taylor testified, adding that she knew Harris didn’t leave their son intentionally.

Taylor, who divorced Harris earlier this year and went back to using her maiden name, acknowledged they had problems in their marriage dealing with sex. He had told her years earlier he frequently watched pornography and they sought counseling.

She also had caught him sending text messages to other women, but testified she did not know he was meeting some of them for sex. “If I had, I would have divorced him then,” she said.

But Taylor also testified Harris was an equal and enthusiastic partner when it came to parenthood. He helped change Cooper’s diapers, prepared his meals and would bathe the child. In the mornings, she said, Cooper and his father would sit together in bed watching cartoons.

“He wanted to be the one to push him on a swing. He wanted to be the one to slide down the slide with him,” Taylor said of her ex-husband. “He wanted to enjoy every second he could with him.”

Later, jurors were shown home videos of Justin Ross Harris playing music as the child looked on and playing with the boy. They also saw photos of father and son together.

That all came to halt the day Taylor showed up to pick Cooper up from daycare and learned he was never dropped off that day. Earlier that day, Harris sent her a text message asking: “When you getting my buddy?”

She said she rushed to her husband’s nearby office.

“The only thing that made sense to me, based on what I knew that day, was Ross must have left him in the car,” Taylor said. “It was the only thing that clicked in my mind as even a remote possibility. If he was never checked in, he must have been forgotten.” Cobb County police detectives soon arrived and confirmed her fears.

Despite the horrific news, Taylor said, she didn’t cry until hours later when she went home, crawled into her dead son’s bed and wept. Her husband was being held in jail on charges.

“I did not know you could react the way I reacted,” Taylor said. “It was like someone else took over my body for me while I was outside of my mind just trying to make sense of what had happened.”

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