EXCLUSIVE: Father of 5-year-old who died after left in car speaks out
He says he has been trying to get custody of Dionicio Perez and his sister
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The biological father of the child that passed away earlier this week after he was left in a car for several hours spoke out Thursday.
Pablo Lopez Perez, the father of 5-year-old Dionicio Perez, spoke to 6 news through his wife, Jenny, who translated his responses from Spanish.
“I don’t understand how it was possible how that woman left my son. We went to where my son passed away, and I sat in that car for not even five minutes, and I was already drenched in sweat,” he said. “I don’t understand how that woman parked her car facing the sun, and left my son there. I feel that my daughter being in the hands of another inexperienced person — she could run the same risk.”
The boy who died also has a sister in foster care, previously in the custody of Juanita Pinon, the woman who left Dionicio in the car. The girl is no longer in Pinon’s custody, but Perez said he doesn’t know where his daughter is now.
Perez said he was with Dionicio’s mother until the was 3 years old. The mother then kicked him out, changed the locks, and moved to a different address. He said he has worked with three different Douglas County case workers to try to get custody of his children, but because he is an undocumented immigrant, he doesn’t have proper identification.
He said he has tried to give a DNA test to prove he is the children’s father, but that he needs help to navigate the legal system to get his children back.
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