1-year-old dies after being left in hot car while mom was getting lip filler, police say
Maya Hernandez was charged with involuntary manslaughter and two counts of willful cruelty to a child in the June 29 death of the 1-year-old boy and the hospitalization of a 2-year-old who survived.
Hernandez, 20, has pleaded not guilty, NBC affiliate KGET of Bakersfield reported. She is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
Court records did not list a lawyer who could speak on her behalf.
According to a report from the Bakersfield Police Department, Hernandez 'admitted that it was irresponsible to leave her kids in the car, and she thought about it when she got out of the car but had no justification as to why she left them."
The children were left in their car for more than two hours while Hernandez got the cosmetic procedure at a spa in Bakersfield, roughly 110 miles north of Los Angeles, the report says.
The outside temperature reached 101 degrees while she was at the appointment, according to the report, which notes that such heat can raise a vehicle's internal temperature to 143 degrees.
Hernandez told officers that she left her 2022 Toyota Corolla running with the air conditioning set to 60 degrees, according to the report. She said she gave her kids candy, crackers, milk and a cell phone to watch.
She'd asked the nurse who was performing the procedure if she could bring her children in, according to the report, and was told she could leave them in the waiting room.
She did not bring the children inside and told police that she was "concerned about the time," the report states.
Hernandez said she was certain the vehicle would stay on because she had previously stayed in the car for extended periods, the report states. But authorities learned from a local Toyota shop that the car automatically shuts off after an hour of inactivity.
Hernandez told officers that she did not check on her children between 2 and 4:30 p.m. while she was inside, the report states.
She told officers that when she returned to the car, one of the children was foaming at the mouth and shaking, according to the report. She performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and called 911, the report states.
When the child arrived at a local emergency room, the boy had an internal temperature of 107 degrees and no signs of life, according to the report. He was pronounced dead shortly before 6 p.m.
The older boy had a temperature of 99 degrees and was able to eat food and drink liquids, the report states. A nurse at the hospital told police that children older than 2 can better regulate their body temperature because they can sweat.
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