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>> because she believes 100% that it was not intentional. >> reporter: so there she was in court, not condemning ross, but defending him. >> tell these folks a little about cooper. >> cooper was the sweetest little boy. he had so much life in him. he was everything to me. >> reporter: and everything to ross, too, she testified, as the jury watched family videos of father and son. >> what are we looking at there, leanna? >> that's just them in the bed. and that's just kind of a little game that they would play. >> reporter: leanna said ross was the kind of dad who always played at the park. >> ...

Involved in in australia, a mother drove one block, a 30-second drive, and in a matter of that brief time forgot that her child was in the car. >> reporter: what we're talking about here, there is actually a name for this. >> this is referred to as forgotten baby syndrome, which actually describes a phenomenon in which normal, attentive and loving parents, for reasons we don't fully understand, lose awareness that their child is in a car. >> reporter: diamond says it can happen to anyone. distraction and exhaustion often play a role. he add, once the child is forgotten, the brain plays a dange...

Pulled surveillance video from the chick-fil-a restaurant where ross said he took cooper for breakfast. there they were, father and son. >> nothing really seems out of the ordinary. i mean, this looks like a father and son grabbing breakfast. it doesn't look like a child killer waiting to carry out his crime. >> i would say completely to the contrary. i looked at the video, and when i first saw it and i thought it seemed very out of the ordinary. in particular, the way that he was introducing cooper to some of the workers there. and how they eventually described it to us as being almost like h...

Look at this angle of the video. >> the proof was his head never got below the roof of that car. the proof showed that he was turning in the other direction. >> reporter: but what about a those reminders during the day? shouldn't one of those have triggered his mind to say, wait. cooper. where's cooper? >> i think that's a fair question to ask. if ross had forgotten that he had a son, seeing a picture of cooper would have reminded him that he had a son. he didn't forget he had a son. once ross slipped into his work day, he had every reason to believe that cooper was at the day care. >> reporte...

Got it completely right. but hearing the word "guilty" was no cause for celebration. >> what i wanted to hear most is, you know, we can bring cooper back. you can't get that from it though. >> reporter: three weeks later, a judge sentenced ross harris to life in prison. >> sentence of the court is life to serve in confinement without parole. >> reporter: his defense team has already filed an appeal, arguing among other things that the judge never should have allowed all that testimony about sex into the murder trial. and the defense says inaccurate information released early on about ross' com...