Horrible CA Mother Leaves 2 Babies In A Sweltering Hot Car While She Got Lip Fillers, One Baby Dies

Posted • September 1, 2025: A California mom charged in the death of her toddler was getting lip filler injections when she left the child in her car amid temperatures that topped 100 degrees, according to allegations in court records obtained Wednesday. Maya Hernandez was charged with involuntary manslaughter and two counts of willful cruelty to a child in the death on June 29 of the 1-year-old boy and the hospitalization of a 2-year-old who survived. Hernandez, 20, has pleaded not guilty, NBC affiliate KGET of Bakersfield reported. She is being held in lieu of $1 million bail. A Bakersfield police report said Hernandez “admitted that it was irresponsible to leave her kids in the car, and she thought about it when she got out of the car but had no justification as to why she left them." The children were left in their car for more than two hours while Hernandez got the cosmetic procedure at a spa in Bakersfield, roughly 110 miles north of Los Angeles, the report says.

The outside temperature reached 101 degrees while she was at the appointment, according to the report, which notes that such heat can raise a vehicle’s internal temperature to 143 degrees. Hernandez told officers that she left her 2022 Toyota Corolla running with the air conditioning set to 60 degrees, according to the report. She said she gave her kids candy, crackers, milk and a cellphone to watch. She had asked the nurse who was performing the procedure whether if she could bring her children in, according to the report, and was told she could leave them in the waiting room. She did not bring the children inside, and she told police that she was "concerned about the time," the report says.