Watch the chilling moments officers try to save a two-year-old girl’s life after her father leaves her in a scorching hot car for THREE HOURS while he plays PlayStation. His furious reaction is caught on camera.

Shocking police bodycam footage has captured the heartbreaking moment emergency workers desperately tried to save a two-year-old girl who was left in a scorching hot car by her father for three hours.

Christopher Scholtes, an Arizona father, can be seen holding his head in fear and screaming at police before falling to his knees in video footage obtained by Within edition.

Scholtes, 37, was indicted in court Thursday on a charge of first-degree murder by a grand jury after originally being arrested on a lesser charge of first-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty.

“Please baby, please…” he can be heard begging in the video.

“I can’t believe it,” he moaned. “Oh my God.”

Police bodycam footage captured the heartbreaking moment emergency workers desperately tried to save a two-year-old girl who was left in a scorching car by her father

“Please baby, please…” he can be heard pleading in the video. “I can’t believe this,” he moaned. “Oh my god”

Paramedics attend to Scholtes’ two-year-old daughter

His daughter was found unconscious in his car after he left her there while he was playing PlayStation games.

The terrifying video shows police and emergency workers desperately trying to resuscitate the toddler, while Scholtes panics and paces through his house.

Scholtes was arrested last month after his 2-year-old daughter Parker was found unresponsive in his car outside their home in Marana, Arizona, on a day when temperatures reached 108 degrees Fahrenheit.

Scholtes’ other children, ages five and nine, told police he had been playing video games all afternoon. Nearby surveillance cameras showed Parker may have been alone for more than three hours.

The chilling video shows police and emergency services desperately trying to resuscitate the toddler, while Scholtes panics as he paces back and forth through his house.

“Please baby, please…” he can be heard begging in the video

Parker in a family photo taken in March with her parents and two older sisters, who reportedly told police that Christopher often left them in the car with the air conditioning on

Scholtes told detectives that his daughter was asleep in the car and that, because he didn’t want to wake her, he left the engine running and the air conditioning on.

However, according to the police, Scholtes became distracted by playing his game and putting away his food.

On the day Parker died, July 6, Scholtes told police he arrived home around 2:30 p.m. and left his daughter in the car while she was sleeping. She was discovered by his wife when she returned home from work at 4 p.m.

However, Arizona detectives said they obtained surveillance footage from the area that showed Scholtes’ Honda Acura SUV had arrived there around 12:50 p.m.

The upgrade of the charge against Scholtes from second-degree murder to first-degree murder is telling and shows that prosecutors are convinced the father intentionally killed his daughter.

Christopher Scholtes appeared in court Thursday, where charges against him were upgraded from second-degree murder to first-degree murder in the death of his daughter

While second-degree murder is typically based on reckless conduct resulting in death, first-degree murder requires that the death was premeditated and intentional.

At his first court appearance on Thursday, Scholtes, dressed in a gray suit, appeared to hang his head in shame, but he remained silent as formal charges were filed against him.

He spoke only a few words in court and refused to speak to reporters after the hearing.

According to reports from Scholtes’ children, he regularly left them in the car with the air conditioning on. According to the police, he understood that the car automatically turned off after 30 minutes.

When Parker’s mother, 35-year-old doctor Erika Scholtes, came home, she asked her husband where their daughter was. Christopher reportedly searched for her throughout the house, only to realize she was in his car.

That afternoon, temperatures in Arizona soared to 108 degrees Fahrenheit and Parker was rushed to her mother’s hospital, Banner University Medical Center Tucson, where Erika worked as an anesthesiologist.

Sadly, Parker was pronounced dead at the hospital.

His daughter Parker Scholtes, 2, died in a hot car outside her home on July 6 after reportedly being left there for three hours on a day with temperatures of 108 degrees Fahrenheit.

Text messages Christopher and Erika exchanged at the time showed her berating her husband, telling him, “I told you not to leave them in the car anymore. How many times have I told you that?”

He replied, “Honey, I’m sorry!”

“We lost her. She was perfect,” Erika texted back.

Scholtes replied, ‘Honey, our family. How could I do this? I killed our baby. This can’t be true.’

Scholtes faces up to life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder. Although the death penalty is a possibility under state law, KGUN9 reports that the Pima County District Attorney’s Office does not typically seek the death penalty.

Scholtes and Erika started dating on October 19, 2012, according to a message Scholtes posted on the occasion of their 10th anniversary.

“Ten amazing years with this woman. Can’t wait for the rest!” he wrote.

It appears the couple had vacationed together several times in the year before Parker’s death.

They shared a number of smiling selfies from these trips, which included a ski vacation in Banff in February with their eldest daughters and a beach vacation to Cancun in March with the whole family.

The couple also traveled through Europe last June, Seattle in October and Sedona in June, just the two of them.

Parker with her mother Erika and her two sisters in front of their Tucson home on Halloween, just yards from where she died

In heartbreaking text messages, Erike Scholtes criticized her husband over the tragedy, saying: ‘We have lost her. She was perfect’

Parker was born in late October 2021 and within a few weeks went to Disneyland for the first time with her parents and two older sisters.

Scholtes posted adorable photos of the girl online, including one taken by his wife in February of this year in which he is seen sleeping against the little girl.

“I call this a father’s comfort,” the father, who also coached his daughter’s softball team, wrote alongside the photo.

Another photo showed a drawing she had made in chalk, captioned “struggling artist,” and another showed her dressed.

“She is a threat to society, her attitude is as skewed as hers, and her aggressive pit bull is ready to attack,” Scholtes wrote.