An Athens father is facing multiple charges including reckless homicide after his young daughter was left in a hot car in Hamilton County for hours Monday and died.

Authorities say the father, Timothy Blackdeer, said he had taken his other children to their babysitter that morning and didn’t realize the baby had been left in the car until his wife called that afternoon asking where the daughter was.

The baby was pronounced dead a the hospital and had a body temperature of 105 degrees at the time