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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

Mother sentenced for leaving her two young children in a hot car, killing one, while she went for cosmetic surgery

A California mother who left her two young sons strapped in a hot car while she underwent a cosmetic procedure has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after one of the children died.

Maya Hernandez, 20, of Visalia, was sentenced Thursday to 15 years to life in prison after pleading no contest last month to involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 1-year-old son, Amillio Gutierrez.

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