{"id":33414,"date":"2023-07-06T16:40:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=33414"},"modified":"2023-07-06T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:40:38","slug":"lakeland-couple-charged-in-death-of-toddler-left-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/07\/06\/lakeland-couple-charged-in-death-of-toddler-left-in-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland couple charged in death of toddler left in car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk County Sheriff\u2019s detectives have charged husband and wife<strong>\u00a0Joel and Jazmine Rondon<\/strong>, both 33 years old, of Winchester Estates Circle in Lakeland, with aggravated manslaughter of a child, a first-degree felony, after the couple left an 18-month-old toddler in a car overnight when they returned home from partying, and the child died while strapped into her car seat in the extreme heat the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheriff Judd&#8217;s comments about the investigation and arrests.<\/p>\n\n\n        \n        <div class=\"embedpress-gutenberg-wrapper source-provider-Youtube aligncenter ep-clear   ep-content-protection-disabled inline\" id=\"8f90e7e3-f543-4b8a-9cb2-33c5c9ff3106\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube \">\n            <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper \">\n                <div id=\"ep-gutenberg-content-a115984c6fc8db8fee3498fdbada8063\" class=\"ep-gutenberg-content\">\n                    <div >\n                        <div class=\"ep-embed-content-wraper preset-default insta-grid ep-google-photos-carousel\"\n                            style=\"max-width:600px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\"                                                                                                                >\n\n                            <div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-d34c1c0a7c53077a748ebf035ed07540 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:340px; max-height:340px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"News conference: Lakeland couple charged in toddler&#039;s death (July 6, 2023)\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dPaF3GEXT7E?feature=oembed&#038;color=red&#038;rel=1&#038;controls=2&#038;start=true&#038;end=true&#038;fs=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen title=\"Lakeland couple charged in death of toddler left in car\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\tif (typeof gie === 'function') {\n\t\t\t\t\tgie(function(){\n\t\t\t\t\t\tvar iframe = document.querySelector('.ose-embedpress-responsive iframe');\n\t\t\t\t\t\tif(iframe && !iframe.getAttribute('title')){\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tiframe.setAttribute('title', '')\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t                        <\/div>\n\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 4, 2023, the couple went to a Fourth of July celebration in Lakeland with three children under the age of 9 years old, and did not return home until around 3:00 a.m. on July 5th. The pair consumed alcohol and smoked marijuana while at the party. When they returned home, as they began unloading food and items from the car, Jazmine told Joel to bring the female toddler inside while she brought the two other children inside. Joel observed that one of the car doors was open at the time. Joel brought stuff inside their home, and when he went back outside, he saw all four doors to the Hyundai Elantra closed, and assumed Jazmine had gotten the toddler out. He went inside and laid down in bed with his wife. Neither husband nor wife asked each other if they had brought the victim inside. They went to sleep.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joel woke up around 10:00 a.m. that morning and spent about an hour getting ready for work. Around 11:00 a.m. he asked one of the kids to go \u201ccheck on the baby\u201d in the bedroom. The child told Joel that the baby was not in the bedroom, at which time Joel began looking around the house for her. He then went outside and looked in the car, which was parked in the driveway in the full sun. Inside the car he saw the victim still strapped in her car seat and unresponsive. He brought the toddler still strapped in her car seat into the house in a panic, and then he and Jazmine drove the child to Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center. Despite all efforts and cooling her body down, she could not be revived and was declared deceased. At 2:42 p.m. her internal body temperature was 104.4. LRH staff notified law enforcement, and they assumed the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 7:00 p.m. that evening, Joel and Jazmine both submitted to drug screens by the Department of Children and Families; Joel tested positive for meth, marijuana, and alcohol; Jazmine tested positive for marijuana and alcohol.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An autopsy determined that the victim\u2019s cause of death is hyperthermia due to being left in a car, and the manner of death is homicide. Joel and Jazmine were taken into custody on July 6, 2023, and booked into the Polk County Jail.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See them taken into custody.<\/p>\n\n\n        \n        <div class=\"embedpress-gutenberg-wrapper source-provider-Youtube aligncenter ep-clear   ep-content-protection-disabled inline\" id=\"20dc9432-3762-4c08-9864-783c9823c515\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube \">\n            <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper \">\n                <div id=\"ep-gutenberg-content-55436739b2f4b07e3648de4180318169\" class=\"ep-gutenberg-content\">\n                    <div >\n                        <div class=\"ep-embed-content-wraper preset-default insta-grid ep-google-photos-carousel\"\n                            style=\"max-width:600px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\"                                                                                                                >\n\n                            <div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-a0431069b68a6c9f8c765e739217642c ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; 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April 2007 \u2013 arrested by Plant City P.D. for resisting arrest<br>\u2022 March 2008 \u2013 arrested by Plant City P.D. for attempted murder \u2013 nolle prosequi&nbsp;<br>\u2022 July 2009 \u2013arrested by Plant City P.D. for resisting arrest<br>\u2022 November 2010 \u2013 arrested by HCSO for resisting arrest<br>\u2022 February 2023 \u2013 arrested by PCSO on a Lakeland PD warrant for carrying a concealed firearm, possession of meth, possession of paraphernalia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polk County Sheriff\u2019s detectives have charged husband and wife\u00a0Joel and Jazmine Rondon, both 33 years old, of Winchester Estates Circle in Lakeland, with aggravated manslaughter of a child, a first-degree&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[5380],"class_list":["post-33414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland-couple-charged-in-death-of-toddler-left-in-car"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}