BRUNSWICK, Ga.—Obsessed with seeking a relationship outside his marriage, prosecutors say, a Georgia man left his toddler son to die inside a hot SUV so he could “escape from one life into another.”
Prosecutors opened their case Monday against Justin Ross Harris, who is charged with malice murder and other crimes in the June 2014 death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper. Assistant District Attorney Chuck Boring called Harris a deceptive man who saw his wife and child as obstacles to fulfilling his sexual desires.
“This case is about death, deception and a double life,” Boring told a jury evenly split between men and women during his opening statement Monday.
