2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Last week, a 19-year-old Texas mother terrorized the world when authorities in that state accused her of endangering her two daughters, who died of heat in the car where she left them for 15 hours.
Today People made a summary of 5 facts you should know about this case, and this is a synthesis of that account.
According to the Sheriff's Office, when Amanda Hawkins took her two little ones last Wednesday - 1-year-old Bryn Hawkins and 2-year-old Addyson Overgard-Eddy - to a Texas hospital, she told the doctors they had passed out. after smelling some flowers.
However, after a police investigation it was determined that the mother would have left the girls in her vehicle during the night of Tuesday until Wednesday around noon, while she was having fun with friends in a nearby house.
The poor girls, who according to the local television station KABB, were left without any food or drink inside the vehicle, suffered such desperate moments that they screamed, as investigators say a friend of the mother confessed to them that someone inside the The house heard the little creatures cry and even told [Hawkins] to bring them inside the house, but she ignored her.
According to a local weather report, temperatures in the area dropped to 65 degrees Tuesday night, but rose to 92 degrees on Wednesday.
Investigators believe Hawkins had left his daughters alone earlier, but this time the results were fatal. According to the report from the same television station, when she got to the car and saw the state of her daughters, she did not want to seek help immediately, as she feared the consequences. So he tried to bathe the girls and revive them, but they were already unconscious and did not react.
The victims of this horrible tragedy died the day after they arrived at the hospital, and although the autopsy results are pending, her mother was charged that same day with two charges of abandoning and endangering a child. She is currently behind bars with a bond of enza.
In a statement Friday, the sheriff's office said the circumstances of the girls' deaths were dire and that the allegations against the mother could escalate. "This is by far the most horrible case of child abuse I have seen in the 37 years I have been enforcing the law," said Rusty Hierholzer, the officer in charge.
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