By: Las Vegas Now Staff
The Rimer family home is now up for sale, their children are in protective custody, mom and dad are behind bars and little Jason is forever gone, but not forgotten.
A slew of paperwork obtained by Eyewitness News reveals cause for concern long before his untimely death more than two weeks ago in a hot SUV.
Colleen and Stanley Rimer have faced Child Protective Services case workers before. Most of the allegations were unsubstantiated, but on two occasions in 1988 and 1991, an investigation found physical abuse, emotional abuse and neglect, medical neglect, and lack of supervision occurring in the Rimer household.
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Jason Rimer hadn't been born then, but in his short four years, CPS conducted five referrals on his behalf for abuse and neglect.
All the cases involving Jason were closed, but just last year, a CPS investigator required face-to-face contact with the Rimers and their children, warned the parents to stop excessive or physical discipline and urged the children to speak to school staff anytime they had a concern about a problem at home.
Read the arrest warrant against Stan and Colleen Rimer
But no investigation could foresee Jason dying inside an SUV after 17 hours.
It wasn't the first time he had been left behind.
In an interview with a Metro Police Detective, Colleen Rimer said she went to the store to shop and forgot to get Jason out of the vehicle before exiting it. She stated someone came into the store and announced someone had left a baby in the car. It was only then she realized she had forgotten Jason.
Jason was only six months old at the time.
Incredibly, Colleen Rimer admitted to police on another occasion the family got to church and realized they left a one-year-old child behind alone in the playpen.
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