A Florida man is facing criminal charges after his 8-month-old son died while being kept in a sweltering bedroom with no air conditioning.
William Francis Hendrickson, 25, had been told by child protection authorities the day before his son's death to keep his children in another room, The Tampa Bay Times reported .
The baby died on Thursday after being kept in the Largo mobile home bedroom that was 109 degrees when police arrived.
Authorities say the baby's body temperature was 105.6 degrees. Hendrickson's 2-year-old daughter had to be treated for dehydration.
The children's mother was arrested days earlier on a battery charge, so was in jail at the time of the child's death.
County child protection investigators did a welfare check on Thursday and told Hendrickson not to leave the children in the bedroom.