Source: New York Post
A Texas mother has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for deliberately leaving her baby inside her car on a sweltering summer day — as it emerged she made a “pit stop” at a McDonald’s on her way to the hospital, where her baby was pronounced dead. Vanessa Esquivel, 28, was convicted of first-degree murder for leaving her 15-month-old child inside her car for several hours while she worked a shift at a spa in Frisco, about 25 miles north of Dallas, on August 16 of last year Frisco police said at the time that she “intentionally” left the tot in her car even though “she knew” it “did not have working air conditioning with an outside temperature of at least 95 degrees. ” Vanessa Esquivel intentionally left her 15-month-old child in her car, cops say.
