Parents Charged After Leaving Kids in Hot Car | Kansas City News

Kansas City News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 19, 2026 · 1m

Two parents in Liberty are facing serious charges after allegedly abandoning their two young children—ages 9 and 4—in a dangerously hot car while they were inside a probation office. The kids were found pale and lethargic as temperatures soared past 100 degrees inside the vehicle. Despite Robertson claiming he was only gone 15 minutes, the probation officer said they were away for at least 25—and never mentioned having kids in the car. Harp claimed they didn’t want to wake the sleeping child, but witnesses saw them in the car hours before the parents even left. Both parents now face…