24-05-2025
Retrial date set for Portales daycare owners charged with child's death
PORTALES, N.M. (KRQE) – A retrial date has been set for two Portales daycare owners who were charged with a child's hot car death.
Mary and Sandi Taylor were initially convicted of reckless child abuse in 2019 after leaving the two children in a hot car for nearly three hours in 2017. As a result, one of those children died, and the other suffered severe brain damage as a result.
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The Taylors later appealed their conviction and March 2024, the New Mexico Supreme Court ordered a new trial for the pair.
The trial is now scheduled for Sept. 30, 2025. Both women are out of custody while they await their retrial.
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