Prosecutors slapped a Georgia man with multiple murder charges Thursday  for  leaving his two-year-old son alone in a hot car  for seven hours while he sat at his desk at work reportedly exchanging nude photos with an underage girl.

Justin Ross Harris was indicted by a Cobb County grand jury on multiple charges including felony murder, malice murder, and cruelty to children, more than two months after the child's death.

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Prosecutors said they charged Harris with malice murder as they intend to show that Harris intentionally left his son, Cooper, who was strapped to his seat inside the hot car, to die.

The eight-count indictment also included sex-related charges as prosecutors alleged that Harris engaged in sexually explicit exchanges with an underage girl.

County District Attorney Vic Reynolds said that they look forward to the case running its full course and hope that justice will be served at the conclusion of the trial.

Harris is set to be arraigned in the coming weeks and Reynolds said that he will decide before then on whether he will seek the death penalty or not.

Maddox Kilgore, defense lawyer for Harris, said that his client has been devastated after losing everything that mattered to him--his son, livelihood, and freedom.

In a press conference Thursday, Kilgore maintained that his client did not leave his son in the hot car intentionally.

"It was an accident," Kilgore said. The lawyer added that the state's inconsistent theories that Harris had a motive in the death of his son will not hold water in the trial.

He said that Cooper's death was a "gut-wrenching" accident and that despite the prosecutors' maze of theories that Harris intentionally left him to die, it would eventually be proven to be unintentional.

Harris has given his own version of the death to the police, saying that on the morning of June 18, he was supposed to drive his son to day care before going to work. He, however, drove directly to work without realizing that his son was in the back strapped into his car seat.

Police said that the toddler was left in the hot car for seven hours on a day when temperatures were in the 80s in Atlanta.

The office of the medical examiner said Cooper died of hyperthermia from overheating. The examiner ruled the death as a homicide.

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