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Maya Hernandez, 20, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty

A one-year-old is dead after being left in a hot car for hours while his mother underwent a cosmetic procedure, police said.

Maya Hernandez, 20, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty after allegedly leaving her two sons, Amillio Gutierrez, 1, and his two-year-old brother, locked inside a parked car as temperatures soared to 101 degrees in Bakersfield, California on June 29.

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[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some people are just stupid. And stupidity very often correlates with the volume of the artificial lips.

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Killing a baby is well beyond fucking stupid. This is fucked up on many levels

[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It wasn't deliberate killing (at least I think so...). Just a stupidity of an enormous scale.

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A lot more than stupidity.

[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What else except stupidity?

[–] Decq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Neglect, she knew apparently it wasn't a good idea, yet she still did it. Even just locking her kids in the car for 2.5 hours unattended should be considered neglect, no matter the temperature.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

While I understand the thought process behind this feature where the car shuts itself off after idling for “too long” the possibly deadly consequences make me question whether it should exist.

(To be clear, what she did was still incredibly stupid whether the feature existed or not and whether she knew about it or not)

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You’re right. Nobody reads a car’s manual cover-to-cover. Even if there was a way to disable this feature, she probably wouldn’t have known about it.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

There should not be deadly consequences because you shouldn't be leaving any person or other animal unattended in a car for that long.

[–] redhat421@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The car was running with the air conditioner on. It automatically turns itself off after one hour in park.

[–] Moose@moose.best 61 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You don't just leave a one and two year old locked in a car unsupervised for two and a half hours, regardless of air conditioning.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

You don’t leve children unsupervised at all at that age…

[–] redhat421@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yep. I agree.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I own the same model of car, and it tells you the car will shut off after an hour. As soon as you open the door, you get a big “car will automatically shut off in one hour” warning and cabin chime. It even pings your phone if you have the app installed.

[–] redhat421@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's all good. Still feels like insane behavior for the car to have.

I think this is the classic case of trying to second guess the operator of the vehicle.

Some people were leaving their cars on in their garages accidentally, and having the engine start at some point later. This leads to leaking combustion products into the garage and home.

To fix that, they add an auto shut off that leads to cars unexpectedly turning off.

Hard nut to crack.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The boys’ grandmother, Katie Martinez, is heartbroken.

“They were strapped in their car seats. They couldn’t even get up to save themselves,” she told ABC7. “She literally locked them in their car seats and shut their doors.”

The grandmother will never forgive her (nor should she).

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or the brother, who had to see the little one wither and die for hours in front of him.

I do hope he can forget that experience.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He was two years old, so I doubt he'd understand or retain it in the first place

[–] Steve@startrek.website -5 points 1 day ago

Not true at all.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Natural selection still exists and nothing stopping stupid people from creating life. In fact it’s encouraged.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

WARNING! The article is very necessarily descriptive.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Those lips looking shit though at least 💩👄

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Looks like ass.