Texas mom locks her 2 kids inside hot car to teach daughter a lesson
A 24-year-old Texas mom was arrested and charged after police in Weatherford, Texas, say she left her 2-year-old daughter and 16-month-old son locked up inside a car last month, where they both died of heat exposure, in an effort to “teach her daughter a lesson,” according to a police report shared by CNN on June 24. The mom, Cynthia Marie Randolph, is currently in custody facing two felony charges in the deaths of her two children.
According to that Parker County Sheriff’s Office police report, on May 26 around 12:15 pm, the mom discovered her two kids playing in her car. When she told her children to get out of the vehicle, her daughter refused to do so. The mother then shut the car door “to teach her daughter a ‘lesson,’ thinking ‘she could get herself and her brother out of car when ready,’” according to the police report.
“Randolph then went inside and smoked marijuana before falling asleep for two or three hours. She also told authorities that she broke the car window to make the deaths look like an accident, the release said.” ~ per CNN
That same police report stated that Randolph changed the story several times about how her children came to be trapped inside that locked car. In one version of stories she told police, Randolph said the kids were playing on the back porch. When she later noticed that the children were missing, she searched for the kids for about 30 – 40 minutes before discovering them locked up inside her car. According to CNN:
“The sheriff’s office was alerted to the incident around 4 p.m., when temperatures outside had reached 96 degrees. The children, identified by the Tarrant County medical examiner as Juliet and Cavanaugh Ramirez, were pronounced dead half an hour later.”
Randolph is being held at the Parker County Jail on a $200,000 bond and has been charged with two first-degree felony counts of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury, according to The Washington Post.
By: Ace Staff
