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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    2 days ago

    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.