Texas mom arrested after children die in hot car

Source: CNN
Published: Jun 24, 2017
Author: Dakin Andone
Post Date: 2017-06-25 12:48:51 by Gatlin
Views: 5073

(CNN)A Texas mother whose two children died of heat exposure after she left them in a car was arrested Friday, local authorities said.

The Parker County Sheriff's Office arrested Cynthia Marie Randolph, 24, for the deaths last month of her 2-year-old daughter and 16-month-old son after she left them in the car to teach her daughter a lesson, the sheriff's office said in a news release.

"Throughout multiple interviews, Randolph created several variations of the events which led to the death of her children," the release said.

But the investigation, which also involved the Texas Rangers, revealed a different story.

On May 26, the news release said, Randolph found the children playing in the car around 12:15 p.m. When she told her daughter to get out of the car, she refused, and Randolph closed the car door "to teach her daughter a 'lesson,' thinking 'she could get herself and her brother out of car when ready,'" the release said.

Randolph then went inside and smoked marijuana before falling asleep for two or three hours. She also told authorities that she broke the car window to make the deaths look like an accident, the release said.

The sheriff's office was alerted to the incident around 4 p.m., when temperatures outside had reached 96 degrees. The children, identified by the Tarrant County medical examiner as Juliet and Cavanaugh Ramirez, were pronounced dead half an hour later.

At the time, the news release said, Randolph told police the children were playing in an enclosed back porch when she realized they were "gone." She spent the next 30-40 minutes looking for the children, Randolph said, before she found them locked inside the car.

Randolph said the children "entered the vehicle on their own and had locked themselves inside," according to the release. She claimed that she broke one of the car's windows to try to save them.

Randolph is in the county jail facing two felony charges of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury, the sheriff's office said.

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#1: Gatlin    To: All (#0)

Careful now….did you miss it?

Here, let me repeat it just in case you did.

… Randolph then went inside and smoked marijuana before falling asleep for two or three hours.
There!!!!

All together you potheads, sound off on the count of three …

One….Two….Three…

Marijuana Smoking Doesn't Kill.

Louder …

Marijuana hasn't caused any deaths!!!

There, do you potheads now feel better about this tragic incident where two small children died?

Gatlin posted on 2017-06-25 12:52:02   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Pinguinite    To: Gatlin (#1)

Marijuana hasn't caused any deaths!!!

If she didn't own a car, the kids would not have died.

So shall we ban cars too?

Pinguinite posted on 2017-06-25 12:58:59   Reply   Private Reply

#3: Gatlin    To: Pinguinite (#2)

Marijuana hasn't caused any deaths!!!

If she didn't own a car, the kids would not have died.

So shall we ban cars too?

Nah....just the marijuana!

Gatlin posted on 2017-06-25 13:01:46   Reply   Private Reply

#4: Gatlin    To: Pinguinite (#2)

So shall we ban cars too?

Shall we ban filthy apartments along with marijuana?

Florida mom faces child neglect charges after children, aged 1 and 2, found dirty, alone with marijuana: police

Gatlin posted on 2017-06-25 13:07:47   Reply   Private Reply

#5: Gatlin    To: Pinguinite (#2)

Parents face child abuse investigations over pot use

Gatlin posted on 2017-06-25 13:09:52   Reply   Private Reply

#6: Gatlin    To: Pinguinite (#5)

Children in crisis: An epidemic of neglect

Gatlin posted on 2017-06-25 13:12:32   Reply   Private Reply

#7: Anthem    To: Gatlin (#5)

And here on another thread you're weeping about medical care for the poor. How about looking into why she's using the mj? What does she need an analgesic for?

Anthem posted on 2017-06-25 13:14:22   Reply   Private Reply

#8: Gatlin    To: Pinguinite (#6)

There ae many more tragic situations of children tied to marijuana….but I will leave you with just this one:

TWENTY CHILDREN, TWENTY DEATHS TIED TO MARIJUANA

Gatlin posted on 2017-06-25 13:15:42   Reply   Private Reply

#9: Gatlin    To: Anthem (#7)

How about looking into why she's using the mj? What does she need an analgesic for?
I am not your fuckin’ secretary!

Do your own damned research….you lazy ass!

Gatlin posted on 2017-06-25 13:19:38   Reply   Private Reply

#10: Anthem    To: Gatlin (#8)

TWENTY CHILDREN, TWENTY DEATHS TIED TO MARIJUANA

There is some good logical reasoning going on in the replies to that article:

Kristi b says:
November 22, 2016 at 8:16 am

Please tell me how a child dying of abuse has to do with their parents smoking weed? Weed doesn’t make people bad people, marijuana does not make you lazy, or forget about time or short term memory loss unless it’s their 1st time ever getting high, perscription drugs have a lot more dangerous side effects then marijuana ever will, stop being one of those people looking for any reason to bash on of the most natural beneficial prescription out there, drinking is a lot worse, far more child deaths with that yet it’s still legal, focus on the actual problem kid

Mary Jayne says:
March 31, 2016 at 6:29 pm

These events are tragic. However these same scenarios happen to children whose parents do not use marijuana. To make the assertation that marijuana is the cause of this makes as much sense as stating that children who died of neglect had parents who had eaten breakfast, so eating breakfast leads to child neglect. Or some of the cars that children were left in were Hondas, so driving a Honda makes you more likely to leave your kid in a hot car. Your organization grasps at straws to make correlations that aren’t there so you can keep people terrified of marijuana, when the truth is it just isn’t that scary.

Steve says:
February 16, 2016 at 6:04 am

The habitual use of marijuana, described in these incidents, is indicative of an underlying mental illness, i.e. Depression, anxiety, PTSD. Perhaps there should be a greater emphasis on the availability of mental health services. Prohibition is historically ineffective , but supporting the development of healthy coping skills may reduce marijuana use and marijuana related child neglect.

And some typical misinformation about mj use, neglecting any other factors in the personality that causes thee behaviors.
editor says:
April 4, 2016 at 1:45 am

Wrong, there is a loss of short-term memory that comes with marijuana use. There is also a distortion of time. A person can think that only ten minutes has passed and it was an hour. This distortion of time is relevant to the cases of children who die in fires and who are left in hot cars.

Anthem posted on 2017-06-25 13:28:21   Reply   Private Reply

#11: Anthem    To: Gatlin (#9)

I am not your fuckin’ secretary!

Do your own damned research….you lazy ass!

Now there's some logical reasoning.

"Cookoo".

Anthem posted on 2017-06-25 13:30:23   Reply   Private Reply

#12: Deckard    To: Gatlin (#5)

Parents face child abuse investigations over pot use

The officers had found prescription marijuana packets, pipes and burnt joints on tables in the living room and the couple’s bedroom. Anderson and Hillyer explained that they were licensed users under California’s 19-year-old medical marijuana law, but the cops said the couple had put their son, Sage, at risk by careless use of the substance at home.

Michael Weston, a spokesman for California’s Department of Social Services, declined to comment on specific cases. He said, however, that a caseworker entering a home is looking for all sorts of causes of concern — and that could include bottles of aspirin, of bleach, of illegal drugs or legal marijuana, if they are accessible to children.

*****

Maybe we should make it illegal for citizens to possess bleach and aspirin if they are parents.

That seems to be your logic here.

BTW - the parents now have custody of their kids and apparently were never charged with any "drug crimes" - you must really hate that.

Deckard posted on 2017-06-25 13:31:47   Reply   Private Reply

#13: Gatlin    To: Anthem (#11)

Now there's some logical reasoning.

I am glad to have been of assistance to you.

Please let me know if you need more.

I will be around all week …

Gatlin posted on 2017-06-25 13:32:34   Reply   Private Reply

#14: Anthem    To: Gatlin (#13)

Always a pleasure to get to know someone.

Anthem posted on 2017-06-25 13:34:17   Reply   Private Reply

#15: Gatlin    To: Deckard (#12)

Maybe we should make it illegal for citizens to possess bleach and aspirin if they are parents.
Nope, but parents should use caution and act responsibly when using those around kids….you agree, of course.
That seems to be your logic here.
Nope, not my logic at all….just a ridiculous analogy from you.

A stupid one as always!

BTW - the parents now have custody of their kids - you must really hate that.
Nope….not at all.

Edit Add:

BTW - the parents now have custody of their kids - you must really hate that.
BTW – you intentionally neglected to mention that althougth they had their son back, the government had official jurisdiction over Sage and was entitled to make any decisions it deemed in the interest of the child, including removing him from his parents’ care.

That has to REALLY PISS YOU OFF.

Gatlin posted on 2017-06-25 13:39:09   Reply   Private Reply

#16: Gatlin    To: Anthem (#14)

Always a pleasure to get to know someone.
An unforeseen pleasure can become an unexpected intrigue and much more gratifying that some situation that has been deeply planned.

Gatlin posted on 2017-06-25 13:47:08   Reply   Private Reply

#17: Deckard    To: Gatlin (#15)

...the government had official jurisdiction over Sage and was entitled to make any decisions it deemed in the interest of the child, including removing him from his parents’ care.

Bet you loved that, didn't you Melissa?

Your Kids Belong to the Collective

Deckard posted on 2017-06-25 14:47:57   Reply   Private Reply