The Arizona dad who killed himself after leaving his 2-year-old daughter to die in a hot car had been locking his kids in parked cars for more than 10 years, his now-teen daughter claimed as she filed an explosive abuse lawsuit against him.

Christopher Scholtes, 38, allegedly began leaving one of his daughters locked in his car over a decade ago — and made a habit of doing it ever since.

“The first time he did it was with me when I was younger than 7,” the girl, now 17, told News 4 Tuscon .

She made the stunning comments just days before the deadbeat dad killed himself on Tuesday night, hours before he was supposed to turn himself in for a decades-long prison term for killing his youngest daughter, little Parker, by locking her in his car for three hours on a 109-degree Tucson day i

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