LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Supreme Court says a judge whose son died in a hot car in 2015 can return to the bench but won’t be allowed to take up any cases involving child neglect.
Garland County Circuit Judge Wade Naramore was acquitted on a negligent homicide charge last summer. His son Thomas died in July 2015; the judge said he forgot to take the 18-month-old child to a daycare center near the courthouse.
The court had suspended Naramore from his $160,000-a-year job with pay, and Naramore asked this week to return to the post.
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Justices said Thursday the suspension would be lifted after the Hot Springs-based court redistributes cases in such a way “that Naramore will not be assigned dependency-neglect cases.” The plan is due next week.
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