A Brevard County judge on Thursday rejected a motion to throw out a homicide charge for a father whose 9-month-old child died in a hot car.

Steven Lillie was in court, trying to get the charge dropped.

Lillie is accused of leaving his baby girl in a hot truck for at least four hours in June 2014.

He claims he forgot she was in there, and by the time he realized what happened, it was too late.