Maya Hernandez, 20, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty

A one-year-old is dead after being left in a hot car for hours while his mother underwent a cosmetic procedure, police said.

Maya Hernandez, 20, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty after allegedly leaving her two sons, Amillio Gutierrez, 1, and his two-year-old brother, locked inside a parked car as temperatures soared to 101 degrees in Bakersfield, California on June 29.

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    2 days ago

    You’re right. Nobody reads a car’s manual cover-to-cover. Even if there was a way to disable this feature, she probably wouldn’t have known about it.

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        Sure, you’ve read the manual of every rental car you’ve ever used. K, buddy.

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        Piss off dude. 99% of the time cars are all the fucken same it only gets problematic when some dipshit changes something for no reason that’s been the same since the 1970s.

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            True. Cars consoles (knowingly here in the US) are non-standard in their layouts. I was one day surprised while riding as passenger in my sister’s new 2023 car that she didn’t know how to turn on the headlights. The light “switch” was a menu button, to go inside a menu, and a mode needed to be selected. That was one scary day.