California officials say mom who pushed for DUI laws was drunk, unconscious with dead toddler inside SUV
A California woman who advocated for stricter DUI laws after two of her children were killed by a drunk driver has been charged with manslaughter after officials say they found her intoxicated and unconscious in an SUV with the body of her young daughter, who died locked inside their vehicle after temperatures topped 100 degrees.
A California woman who advocated for stricter DUI laws after two of her children were killed by a drunk driver has been charged with manslaughter after officials say they found her intoxicated and unconscious in an SUV with the body of her young daughter, who died locked inside their vehicle after temperatures topped 100 degrees.
Relatives discovered the 3-year-old girl and her mother, Sandra Hernandez-Cazares, 42, in the mom’s Ford Expedition on Friday afternoon, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.
The vehicle was parked outside Hernandez-Cazares’ apartment in Anaheim, southeast of Los Angeles, and temperatures at the time were roughly 104 degrees, the prosecutor’s office said.
Hernandez-Cazares was charged with involuntary manslaughter, felony child abuse and endangerment and one count of causing great bodily injury on a child under 5 years old, court records show.
She is being held in lieu of $150,000 bail and faces a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison, according to the DA's office.
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