In Texas, a department of justice worker is arrested for allegedly slipping an abortion drug into his pregnant girlfriend's drink.

In Louisiana, a father faces murder charges after leaving

his one-year-old daughter in a hot car for nine hours after a drinking binge. And in Kentucky,

a man is arrested for releasing a raccoon inside of a bar after he was banned entry.

These crime stories dominated the headlines this week, and we have our comments on those

stories and more today on CrimeWire Weekly.

I'm Jim Chapman.

And I'm Kelly Jenny.

And it is Father's Day weekend.

So before we get started, I want to wish all of my fellow dads a very happy Father's Day. Absolutely. And I want to wish my sweet husband,

happy Father's Day. Thank you for being my Bubu Daddy. Oh, Lord. We're going to start off with

not a good father here in Louisiana first.

A Louisiana father was charged with second-degree murder after allegedly leaving his 21-month-old daughter inside a hot car for more than nine hours.

Joseph Boatman, who is 32 of Hammond, was arrested this past Sunday after

the child died outside a home. This was in Madisonville. Detectives with the St. Tammany Parish

Sheriff's Office major crimes unit learned that Boatman had strapped the toddler into her car seat inside the vehicle after

picking her up from a family member's residence. This was shortly after 2.30 a.m. Sunday, which

was the first thing that kind of stood out to me. That's a heck of a time to pick up your daughter.

After strapping the toddler into the car seat,

Boateman goes back inside the residence and he never returned to the vehicle. It was also

learned that prior to that, Boatman had consumed multiple alcoholic beverages. Police said

they responded to this home shortly before noon on Sunday after a family member located the girl unresponsive inside that vehicle.

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