A Texas mother was taken into custody Tuesday after police alleged her 22-month-old child died when she left the infant in a car outside a Corpus Christi school on one of the hottest days of the year.

The mother, 33-year-old Hilda Ann Adame, was jailed on charges of causing serious bodily injury to a child and child endangerment/abandonment with imminent bodily injury, according to a Corpus Christi Police Department incident report.

It was not clear how long the infant had been in the car before the baby was found unresponsive, according to the incident report.

  • watson387@sopuli.xyz
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    Completely avoidable. This should NEVER happen. That woman SHOULD be in prison.

    Edit: Wow. Wasn’t expecting all the downvotes but I’m sticking to my guns on this one. If your child neglect results in the death of the child you should absolutely go to prison.

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      Most of these things are accidents due to exhaustion from the systemic grind. You don’t know nearly enough to talk like that.

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      Avoidable yes, should never happen yes, but what purpose does prison serve here?

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      You conclusion does not follow from the premises. Please develop your abilities to reason using syllogisms.

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      Shouldn’t happen in modern cars, keep a running thermal sensor, weight and accelerometer sensor in seat, send alert if weight remains and any accelormeter activity when temp above danger threshold. I do not think this is required but should be.