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Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
Mom Leaves 2 Kids in Hot Car for 2 Hours to Get Lip Fillers: Cops
Police say a young mother had her two children, ages 1 and 2, strapped in their car seats in a parking lot while she was getting a cosmetic procedure. Her youngest died from the heat. Maya Hernandez faces a judge inside a courtroom in Bakersfield, California. Police say the temperature inside the car had soared to 143 degrees. Little Amillio had no pulse and died at the hospital. His two-year-old brother survived. The mother's attorney spoke with Inside Edition.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
What would you do if you came upon a child, or a dog, locked inside a hot car?
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Try to visualize it: You're walking through the parking lot of a shopping center. You spot a child in a car seat, locked inside a car. What would you do? What should you do? Let's start here: Don't just walk away. The temperature inside a car can rise 20 degrees Fahrenheit within 10 minutes and continue to climb quickly. Leaving the window open a crack does not significantly slow the process. Since 1990, more than 1,100 U.S. children have lost their lives in hot cars, and just since May 2025, 15 children have died this way. That does not include 1-year-old Amillio Gutierrez, who died June 29 after his mother, 20-year-old Maya Hernandez, left him and an older sibling in her car while she was getting a lip filler treatment at a Bakersfield spa. She has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty. We asked Bakersfield shoppers on a 104-degree day this week what they would do if they encountered a child – or a pet – locked in a hot car. Some had already experienced it. Betty Eaves once came upon a wild scene, where a mother exited a store to find paramedics extracting her child from a locked car. 'The parent had come up and was just hysterical,' Eaves said. 'Oh, that's my child, that's my child. I don't know what happened to her but the baby was ok.' Nic Brown had a similar experience with a dog outside a pet store. 'Somebody had a little Chihuahua in their car and we tracked the person down and they ended up getting the dog out,' he said. 'We shouldn't be doing that.' So – what should you do? 'Contact the store management,' said Maria Vasquez. 'See if there's anybody in the store that owns that vehicle. If not, contact the authorities.' 'Definitely call law enforcement right away,' said Rikki Minus, who was bringing her 5-year-old into a grocery store. 'Don't leave the child. But if you can try to get in the car, break the window as soon as possible. Because it's very sad. Too many kids are dying like that.' Not everyone is comfortable smashing a window, however. 'Call 9-1-1, stay with the people, stay with the person near the car,' said Christina Barela, who was shopping with her almost-11-year-old daughter. 'I don't know if I would go as far as to break the window. I think I would wait until somebody had the tools to do that.' And that's OK, said firefighter Sean Rogers, a paramedic with the Bakersfield Fire Department. 'We always advise people to act within their own level of comfort,' he said. 'You could start small and try to (gauge the situation). Are you at a restaurant or a public area? Can you notify anybody? Does this vehicle belong to anybody? 'Do what you have to do in that sense, and then escalate from there. If you're unable to find the owner of the vehicle, the parents, whoever, then you would take the next step. If you feel that someone is truly in danger…if you do not initiate a rescue now, that would be the time to act and act responsibly.' Isn't that risky, breaking someone's window? Not necessarily. Not if you do it right, and confine the damage to the absolute minimum required to achieve the rescue. 'As long as you call 9-1-1 and act responsibly, there are Good Samaritan laws in place to protect you,' Rogers said. This kind of tragedy can happen even to responsible parents who just happen to space out. Some 52% are deemed to have simply made a heartbreaking oversight. What can parents do to remind themselves they have a baby on board? Throw your purse or brief case in the back seat with your child, so you're compelled to look back there before you exit the vehicle. Put a stuffed animal on the front seat as a reminder that you've got a passenger. As for passers-by who encounter locked-in kids in parking lots – when in doubt, act. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
National Post
a day ago
- National Post
California mom charged after one-year-old dies from being left in hot car while she got lip injections
A California mother has been charged with manslaughter and child cruelty after her infant son died from allegedly being left inside a car on a 100-plus degree day while she was getting lip filler injections at a medical spa in late June. Article content The Bakersfield Police Department alleges that Maya Hernanendez, 20, knew when she walked away from her vehicle that leaving one-year-old Amillio Guiterrez and his two-year-old brother was 'irresponsible,' according to documents filed in Kern County Superior Court and obtained by National Post. Article content Article content Article content 'But she intentionally left them in the vehicle regardless, placing the value of her appearance over the value of the safety and well-being of her children,' Det. Kyle McNabb wrote in his report. Article content Article content According to police, Hernandez had contacted the spa earlier on June 29 to ask if her children could accompany her and was told they could, so long as they stayed in the waiting room of the medical facility. A spa nurse allegedly later told police they were not aware that the children were waiting in the vehicle. Article content Figuring her appointment could go long, police say Hernandez told them that upon arriving around 2 p.m., she decided to leave the boys strapped into their car seats, with snacks and milk, inside the running car with the air conditioning on while they watched shows on her phone. Article content '(Hernandez) stated she was certain that her car would stay on with the air conditioning running the whole time she was gone, because she had been in her car for extended periods of time before and had even slept in her car,' McNabb wrote. Article content Article content However, police later learned that her vehicle, a 2022 Toyota Corolla Hybrid, automatically shuts off after one hour if left in park. Article content Article content Hernandez said she returned to her vehicle at approximately 4:30 p.m. and found Amillio red in the face and then appearing to suffer a seizure with 'foaming at the mouth and shaking.' The other boy was faring better, but his hair was still 'soaking wet' with sweat. She sought assistance from spa staff and called 911. Article content Both were transported to hospital where staff worked on Amillio for 40 minutes before pronouncing him dead. A doctor interviewed by police said the infant's body temperature was recorded at 107.2 degrees. Article content According to historical weather data, the peak temperature at that time of day was 101 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius). In his report, McNabb noted that the internal temperature of a car can climb to 143°F (62°C) in just one hour of 100-degree weather.
IOL News
5 days ago
- IOL News
One-year-old dies after mother leaves him in hot car to get lip filler
Maya Hernandez left her two children in a hot car while she went to a spa for over two hours to get a lip filler. A 20-year-old mother of two has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after leaving her one-year-old son to die in a hot car while she underwent lip filler injections Maya Hernandez from California in the United States, has also been charged with two counts of willful cruelty to a child following the harrowing event. According to NBC News, Hernandez left her one-year-old and his two-year-old brother in car a Bakersfield, near Los Angeles, on a day when temperatures soared to 37°C. The publication said the children were left in a 2022 Toyota Corolla for over two hours outside the Always Beautiful Medical Spa where she received the cosmetic treatment. The Los Angeles Times reported that Hernandez informed the police that when she was done with her procedure, she discovered her baby foaming at the mouth and seemingly experiencing a seizure. In a state of panic, she immediately called 911. Both of her children were then taken to a hospital for medical care.
West Australian
5 days ago
- West Australian
One-year-old dies after being left in hot car while mother was getting lip filler, police say
A California mother charged in the death of her toddler was getting lip filler injections when she left the child in her car amid temperatures that topped 37C, according to allegations in court records obtained Wednesday. Maya Hernandez was charged with involuntary manslaughter and two counts of willful cruelty to a child in the death on June 29 of the one-year-old boy and the hospitalisation of a two-year-old who survived. Hernandez, 20, has pleaded not guilty, NBC affiliate KGET of Bakersfield reported. She is being held in lieu of $US1 million bail. Court records did not list a lawyer who could speak on her behalf. A Bakersfield police report said 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 180km north of Los Angeles, the report says. The outside temperature reached 38C while she was at the appointment, according to the report, which notes that such heat can raise a vehicle's internal temperature to 62C. Hernandez told officers that she left her 2022 Toyota Corolla running with the air conditioning set to 15C, according to the report. She said she gave her kids candy, crackers, milk and a cellphone to watch. She had asked the nurse who was performing the procedure whether 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 she told police that she was 'concerned about the time', the report says. Hernandez said she was certain the vehicle would stay on because she had previously stayed in the car for extended periods, the report says. 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 4:30pm while she was inside, the report says. 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 says. When the boy arrived at a local emergency room, he had an internal temperature of 42C and no signs of life, according to the report. He was pronounced dead shortly before 6pm. The older boy had a temperature of 37C and was able to eat food and drink liquids, the report says. A nurse at the hospital told police that children older than twp can better regulate their body temperature because they can sweat. The boy was listed as stable and placed in protective custody, police said in a news release.
