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Police in the US state of Texas have formally charged a neglectful mother with two counts of homicide after she deliberately locked her two young children inside her car in sweltering hot temperatures last May.
According to reports in the US, the horrid mother named Cynthia Randolph was charged with the offences after a Tarrant County coroner ruled that the two children Juliet Ramirez (aged 2) and her 1-year-old brother, Cavanaugh, died as a result of heatstroke after they were found unresponsive on May 26th outside their home in in Parker County, Texas.
It is understood Ms Randolph aged 24, who was arrested by authorities in June and charged with two counts of causing bodily injury to a child with intent, left the two toddlers in the vehicle during a heatwave in order to teach them a lesson after they refused to leave the vehicle in what was later described as childish prank between the pair.
Although Randolph initially claimed the children “took off” and locked themselves inside her small vehicle, forcing her to break a window in an attempt to save them, the true version of events was later obtained by police after Ms Randolph caved under intense police questioning.
Police Investigators later discovered that the angry mother “shut the car door to teach her daughter a ‘lesson,’ thinking, ‘she could get herself and her brother out of the car when they were ready.”
Investigators also claim the negligent mother told them that “she went into her home, smoked marijuana and went to sleep for two to three hours.”
However after waking up and running out to the car Ms Randolph discovered the two infants unresponsive which prompted her to brake the window before calling emergency services.
State police say the two young children died 30 minutes later whilst en-route to hospital, they also say the children were left espoused to temperatures that exceeded 96F (35C) when inside the car.