Mom who allegedly let 1-year-old baby die in hot car while she got lip filler was actually getting a Brazilian butt lift: Witness

A California pistillate who allegedly fto her babe dice successful a hot car portion she was getting articulator filler astatine a med spa was getting a antithetic procedure, a witnesser said astatine her trial.

Maya Hernandez, 20, volition soon larn her destiny from the assemblage deciding her execution case. Prosecutors said that connected June 29, Hernandez near her 1- and 2-year-old sons successful her car portion she got a articulator filler process astatine a aesculapian spa successful Bakersfield, California. Her 1-year-old, Amillio, died aft the conveyance became excessively hot.

In a stunning revelation during grounds connected Dec. 11, a spa aesthetics injector told the tribunal that Hernandez was not determination to person articulator filler, a process that takes 15 to 20 minutes. She was determination to get a liquid Brazilian butt assistance (BBL), which tin instrumentality considerably longer.

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According to courtroom reporting by section NBC affiliate KGET, Hernandez took the basal connected Monday successful her ain defense. During her testimony, she stated that she did not deliberation the BBL process would instrumentality 2 hours and believed that it would lone instrumentality 20 minutes.

However, the spa injector testified that connected the time of Hernandez's procedure, the spa was backed up. She suggested to Hernandez that she hold successful the car until they were acceptable for her. The worker testified that Hernandez did not notation that her kids were successful the car oregon that she was successful a hurry.

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When Hernandez took the basal successful her ain defense, she testified that she checked her Apple Watch portion she waited wrong the spa. KGET reported that prosecutors revealed she checked her Apple Watch 45 times, and that she could person easy seen however overmuch clip had passed portion she was waiting inside. During that time, she allegedly ne'er went extracurricular to cheque connected the boys portion temperatures reached 101 degrees Fahrenheit.

Law&Crime antecedently reported that Hernandez was told via substance by a med spa worker that she was allowed to bring her children inside.

When Hernandez near the spa aft her liquid BBL process was finished, she told the tribunal that she recovered Amillio unresponsive successful the car and enactment acold aerial connected him.

KGET reported that portion prosecutors showed the tribunal photos of Hernandez and her 2 boys, followed by pictures from the country wherever Amillio died, she cried the full time.

Hernandez was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, and 2 counts of kid cruelty.