Mom whose 1-year-old died after being strangled by car seat strap while being left alone is now in even more trouble: Cops

A Texas parent finds herself down bars erstwhile again aft her 1-year-old died erstwhile a car spot strap became wrapped astir the child's neck aft having been near unsocial successful a Ford Fusion connected Halloween night.

Ashley Jasmin Rivera, 26, was facing a complaint of injury to a kid causing death, but jailhouse records accidental she is facing much charges. She present stands accused of transgression negligent homicide and abandoning a kid portion causing imminent information of bodily injury. Local CBS affiliate KGBT reported connected the second charges successful December and she was booked into the Hidalgo County Jail connected Wednesday. As of Monday afternoon, she remained determination connected a $60,000 bond.

As Law&Crime antecedently reported, the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office said successful a property merchandise obtained by local outlets that deputies responded to a telephone soon earlier 9 p.m. connected Oct. 31 astir an unresponsive babe successful the 8100 artifact of North FM 88 successful agrarian Weslaco successful southeast Texas, not acold from the Mexico border.

When deputies arrived, they recovered the 1-year-old not breathing. Paramedics rushed the 1-year-old to the infirmary wherever doctors pronounced the kid dead.

"The child's car spot was recovered tipped guardant down the driver's seat, with the car spot strap astir the child's neck," the merchandise reportedly said.

Rivera reportedly told investigators that she and her 4 children arrived astatine the location. The 1-year-old was sleeping, truthful she near the kid successful the car portion Rivera and the different 3 kids went inside. Roughly 20 oregon 30 minutes later, a witnesser said helium went to the car and recovered the kid unresponsive.

More from Law&Crime: 'Needed a nighttime out': Mom near 3-year-old with soiled diaper location unsocial truthful she could spell drinking astatine bars with pal, cops say

An autopsy conducted a fewer days aboriginal determined the kid died of strangulation.

Details specified arsenic wherever the parent and different children were going erstwhile she near the 1-year-old down were not released. Cops accidental the probe remains ongoing.