Ex-Wife: Georgia Dad Didn't Mean To Kill Toddler In Hot Car
ATLANTA (AP) - The ex-wife of a 36-year-old Georgia man convicted of murder for leaving their toddler son to die inside a hot SUV says she still believes "it was an accident."
Justin Ross Harris was sentenced to life in prison after a jury found him guilty in November. His son, 22-month-old Cooper Harris, died after being left for hours in the SUV outside his father's workplace.
Harris' ex-wife, Leanna Taylor, told ABC's "20/20" in an interview airing Friday that she "never" believed he meant to kill their son.
Taylor told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV her son is "seen as a child that wasn't loved and wasn't wanted, and that just wasn't true."
Taylor moved from metro Atlanta to Alabama after Cooper's death. She testified in Harris' defense at his trial.
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