An Arizona man has been sentenced after leaving his four children unattended in a dangerously hot car while he visited an adult store. Ascencio Largo, 38, will serve four months in jail followed by 10 years of probation for the incident, which could have led to a much longer prison term.

Largo was arrested in July after his children were discovered in a vehicle where temperatures soared to 124 degrees Fahrenheit. He initially faced eight felony charges due to the severity of the situation.

Body camera footage released by the Phoenix Police Department reveals officers’ efforts to rescue the children. “Where’s mom or dad?” an officer can be heard asking. Another officer later inquires, “Do you know where your guys’ family is?”

It was later revealed that the children’s closest family member at the time was inside The Adult Shoppe located on South 24th Street in the Crestwood neighborhood of Phoenix.

As it turned out, their nearest family member was in The Adult Shoppe on South 24th Street in the Crestwood neighborhood of Phoenix.

On the day in question, a 911 caller reported the incident.

“The car was turned off and the windows were rolled up,” police wrote in a press release. “Officers recognized the danger this posed to the children and immediately gained access to the vehicle. After getting all of the children out of the car, each was given water and put into a marked patrol Tahoe with running air conditioning to help cool down the children.”

Each of the children was said to be visibly suffering from heat-related issues; they were sweating profusely, hot to the touch, and had red skin, according to law enforcement sources cited by Phoenix-based CBS affiliate KPHO.

All of the victims were under the age of 10 at the time. They were monitored after being rescued and checked for temperatures. Their internal body heat ranged from 99.7° to 100.4°F, police said.

“The children were in imminent danger of death in this situation,” a prosecutor said during Largo’s first courtroom appearance.

The judge at that hearing also took stock of the lapse.

“You could have exited that store to a car full of your dead children which is rather shocking,” the judge told the father. “It indicates a strong level of reckless culpability.”

Beyond leaving the children inside for upward of an hour, police said Largo appeared to be drunk and had not responded to multiple announcements made by store employees about the car.

The judge continued to criticize the since-punished dad, at length:

You are presumed innocent, but what the police are alleging could have resulted in, you know, the kind of story that gets picked up on international news wires: Man goes into porno store leaving his four children to die in their car.

In the end, the children did not die from spending an hour baking while their dad went to “get some supplies,” as he told arresting officers.

Before his arrest, Largo went out the back door of the business where an officer asked if the car was his, according to court documents obtained by KPHO. The man initially responded “no.” Officers, however, thought to follow him until he walked around to find the Nissan surrounded by emergency vehicles – whereupon he said “Oh s–.”