A Texas mother who smoked marijuana and watched TV while her two small children died in a hot car was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday. Cynthia Marie Randolph, a 25-year-old from Parker County, was found guilty of two counts of reckless injury to a child after her two young children died inside the locked car.
The mother originally told investigators that 2-year-old daughter Juliet Ramirez and son 16-month-old Cavanaugh Ramirez had disappeared from an enclosed sunroom and later locked themselves in her car on May 26, 2017. She told investigators that she searched for her children for half an hour before she found them unresponsive inside her 2010 Honda Crosstour.
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Testimony would later reveal that Randolph was angry because the youngsters were playing in her car and would not get out. Randolph believed her toddler daughter would be able to get out of the car herself and bring the baby boy with her, The Fort-Worth Star-Telegram reported.
The mother of two then went inside without the children, proceeded to smoke marijuana and watch Keeping Up With the Kardashians before taking a long nap.
“The defendant said she was asleep for two or three hours,” a probable cause affidavit said.
Randolph woke up and found the children unresponsive inside her Honda. The woman later told investigators that she intentionally broke the car window to make it appear like it had been an accident.
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