An American woman was sentenced after abandoning her children in her car in the blazing sun to give herself lip infections; one of them was found dead.

On June 29, 2025, in Visalia, California, Maya Hernandez, then a 20-year-old woman, had an appointment at a clinic for  lip injections . She contacted the clinic beforehand to ask if her two children could accompany her. Although she was told they could wait in the waiting room, this American woman chose to leave her two sons, aged 1 and 2,  locked in her car, parked in the blazing sun , where the outside temperature was  38°C (100°F) .

Although the intervention lasted between 15 and 20 minutes, Maya Hernandez was absent for two hours,  resulting in the death of her youngest son , Amillio.  “When emergency services arrived, little Amillio had no pulse, his lips were blue, and  his body temperature was over 42°C ,” reports  Le Parisien . While this mother had assured the police that she had  left the engine running with the air conditioning on , her vehicle automatically shuts off the engine after an hour of parking, leaving the baby with almost no chance of survival.

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