A Texas mother who spent the last 22 years in prison was exonerated Monday in the 2003 death of a 10-month-old boy who was burned from scalding bathwater while in her care.
Travis County District Court Judge P. David Wahlberg exonerated Carmen Mejia after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned her convictions for felony murder, injury to a child and injury to a child by omission.
At her exoneration hearing, Mejia cried as she thanked God…