Parents arrested for abandoning children in a hot car
Posted/updated on: August 2, 2025 at 5:41 am
CANTON – Two parents were arrested on Monday in Van Zandt County after a child was found in a hot car, sweating and bleeding from the nose, according to a report from our news partner KETK.
On Monday, deputies from the Van Zandt County Sheriff’s office responded to the Wagon Train RV Park on 7869 Interstate 20 South Service Road in Canton to help DPS on a vehicle pursuit. Once arriving, deputies were made aware that the driver had fled from DPS, abandoned it and officers located it at the RV park.
“DPS advised that when they approached the vehicle that they observed a child inside the vehicle while the vehicle ignition turned off, and the child appeared to have been bleeding from the nose and to be very hot and sweating,” the sheriff’s office said.
When officers located the suspect, Nicholas Ryan Deel, at his RV, he said that his nine-month-old was inside the RV alone in the back and refused to allow deputies to enter to check on the child. Deel told deputies that they needed to contact his wife, who is the mother of the child, to get permission to go inside the RV, but he refused to provide his wife’s contact information.
Once Deel was placed into custody, deputies entered the RV and found a bed sheet covering a playpen located in the back corner of a “bunkbed style location,” stopping any air flow, and laying partially on the child inside the pen was a blanket.
“After removing the bed sheet, deputies located the 9-month-old child lying on her back with several empty bottles in the pen and a small blanket,” the release said. “Deputies pulled the playpen out where they could reach and recover the child. Upon picking the child up, they observed the child to be wearing a soiled diaper, and very hot to the touch.”
Shortly after, the mother of the child, Susana Aurora Frisbie, arrived on the scene, where she explained that she and Deel left the nine-month-old in the RV alone while Deel took her to work earlier in the day.
Both children were transported to a local hospital, where they were medically evaluated, and then turned over to the care of CPS. Frisbie was arrested for abandoning and endangering a child, and is being held on a $50,000 bond. While Deel was arrested on the charges of two counts of abandoning and endangering a child, fleeing from a police officer, and tamper with intent of great harm. Deel is being held on a total of $120,000.
