A 20-year-old San Joaquin Valley woman is expected to spend more than a decade in state prison in connection with the death of her 1-year-old child who died after being left in her vehicle in summer temperatures of more than 100 degrees while she was getting lip-filler injections at a nearby spa.
The June 29, 2025, incident occurred in Bakersfield around 2 p.m. when Maya Hernandez left her two children unsupervised in her 2022 Toyota Corolla Hybrid for more than two hours while she went to the spa, KTLA’s Bakersfield sister station KGET reported.
Hernandez, who told police that she left the vehicle’s engine running and the air conditioning on, was unaware that her vehicle had a feature that shuts the motor off after an hour of idling…