There were temperatures outside that were above one hundred degrees, and both boys were apparently “strapped in their car seats” inside the vehicle. Meanwhile, their mother was inside the medical spa for two and a half hours receiving treatment.
Amillio Guitierrez, who was just one year old at the time of his death, was reportedly left inside of a hot vehicle with his brother, who was two years old, while his mother was in a medical spa for a cosmetic surgery. The tragedy occurred in Bakersfield, California, and both of the images above depict him.
Even more terrible is the fact that the mother apparently sent a message to the facility before her appointment at two o’clock, asking whether it would be OK for her to bring her children inside at the facility.
According to the police crime report that was seen by a number of different stations, including KERO and KGET, the answer that woman got was, “Sure, if you don’t mind them waiting in the waiting room, hun.”
According to the investigators, Maya Hernandez, who is twenty years old, made the decision to leave her two small kids in the vehicle when she went to a medical spa on June 29 for a lip filler surgery.
According to the records filed with the police, she abstained from checking on her children for the subsequent two and a half hours. Even though the process itself only took around fifteen to twenty minutes, according to KERO, she remained inside the spa for a much longer period of time because of how crowded it was.
They had their car seats fastened securely around them. “They were so helpless that they couldn’t even get up to save themselves,” Katie Martinez, the boys’ grandmother, said to WABC. “She literally locked them in their car seats and shut their doors.”
Hernandez allegedly saw her one-year-old son suffering a seizure, frothing at the mouth, and trembling by the time she returned to her sons at 4:30 p.m., as stated in the records filed by the police.
In accordance with the legal documentation, both youngsters were hurriedly brought inside the medical spa as staff members took off to assist Hernandez. The two-year-old was apparently hurried to the toilet by a client, who then proceeded to dump water all over his body.
This occurred around 4:45 p.m., when the police arrived on the scene. Gutierrez was brought to the hospital, where the medical staff discovered that he had a fever of 107 degrees. The small kid was proclaimed dead at 5:48 p.m., as a result of the forty minutes that were spent trying to bring him back to life.
Despite having a fever that had reached 99 degrees, his elder brother managed to live and was taken into custody by child protective services. It was noted by medical professionals that a two-year-old is better able to regulate their body temperature since they are able to sweat, while newborns are not able to do so, according to KERO.
While temperatures outside had reached 101 degrees at the time of the incident, temperatures inside a car may climb even quicker, reaching a probable high of 143 degrees within an hour, according to the police report. Although temperatures outside had reached 101 degrees, temperatures inside a vehicle can rise even faster.
Hernandez is said to have responded to the police by saying that she had left the vehicle running with the air conditioner on and the temperature set to sixty degrees when she was questioned about the event, as stated in the court records. According to reports, she said that she believed that they would be OK with the air conditioner running.
The police report adds that Hernandez “admitted that she knew 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 anyway.” This statement was made after Hernandez had heard of the death of her son, as reported by Law&Crime.
According to the authorities, the employee of the spa who apparently responded to the two-year-old and pulled him out of the vehicle said that there was no evidence that the air conditioner was functioning, and the car was hot.
After consulting with an expert on the subject, detectives from the Bakersfield Police Department discovered that the air conditioner in a 2022 Toyota Corolla Hybrid had the capability to turn off after one hour, as reported by KGET.
During an interview with WABC, the grandmother of the boys said that she had, on several occasions, sat in her own vehicle with the windows open and the engine not running in an effort to comprehend the experiences that her grandchildren went through.
“If you just take 20 minutes out of your day and go in your car and feel how it feels,” she said to me, “I think that’s the only thing that will teach you how to know what a kid feels.”
Furthermore, she said to the publication that Hernandez, who “was a really loving mom,” had acted in a manner that was completely out of character. These young men had a deep affection for her. Indeed, they had a deep affection for her, and they depended on her.
Savanah Gutierrez, Amillio’s aunt, has set up a GoFundMe page as a means of raising money for his father, who is presently doing time in prison. A priest at the correctional facility is said to have informed him about his son’s death the day following his son’s passing. Fundraising efforts are being undertaken by the family in order to “bring our baby boy home and give him a proper funeral.”
The allegations of child maltreatment and involuntary manslaughter were brought against Hernandez, who was detained and arraigned on the charges. On a bond of more than one million dollars, she is now being detained at the Kern County Jail. She is scheduled to appear in court for a pre-preliminary hearing on July 11, according to People publications.
