ASSOCIATED PRESS – WBAP/KLIF – A 20 year old Central Texas mother whose 2 and 1 year old daughters died after being left in a hot vehicle overnight has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Kerrville Daily Times reports Amanda Hawkins’ sentence for the June 2017 deaths of 2 year old Addyson and 1 year old Brynn is punishment for her guilty pleas to two counts of child abandonment and endangerment, and two counts of injury to a child.
Police reports indicate Hawkins left her girls inside her vehicle while she visited friends. Temperatures reached into the 80’F’s while the girls were left in the vehicle. Hawkins apologized before her sentencing, saying the deaths will affect her for the rest of her life.
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