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A TEXAS WOMAN told investigators that she left her two-year-old daughter and 16-month-old son in a hot car where they died last month to teach the girl a lesson.
She had initially reported that the children locked themselves in, according to sheriff’s officials.
Cynthia Marie Randolph, 24, was being held yesterday on two counts of causing serious bodily injury to a child. It wasn’t clear if she had an attorney — online jail records didn’t list one for her — and she doesn’t have a listed phone number.
According to the criminal complaint, Randolph initially told investigators she was inside her rural home west of Fort Worth folding laundry and watching TV on 26 May while the children were playing on the enclosed back porch.
She said when she noticed they were no longer there, she went looking for them and found them about a half-hour later locked in the car. According to the 24-year-old, the children were unresponsive and she said she broke a window to gain entry. Temperatures that day reached into the mid-90s.
At the time Randolph said the kids were exposed to the extreme temperatures in the car for “no more than an hour.” But her account of that day changed over the course of several interviews with investigators until she acknowledged on Friday that she left them in the car intentionally, the Parker County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
She told investigators that she found the kids playing in the car and when the two-year-old refused to get out, she shut the door to teach her a lesson, thinking her daughter could get herself and her brother out of the vehicle when ready.
Randolph said she went back into the house, smoked marijuana and took a nap for two or three hours, the complaint states. It says that when she woke up and went to check on the children, they were unresponsive, and that she broke the car window to support her initial claim that the children had locked themselves inside.
The children were pronounced dead about a half-hour after authorities were notified. Authorities declined to discuss the case yesterday.
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Martin is losing his marbles making him Minister for Finance
Another man the bankers, developers, cuckoo funds and vulture funds can count on. This man won’t do anything for the ordinary irish person.
@Washpenrebel: It was ok for Doherty to go off to London in April courtesy Davy Stock Brokers. Now these slanderous accusations are being made about Chambers without foundation. The election showed that thumbs up in the Journal is probably orchestrated.
@Washpenrebel: I am delighted for you shinners, a hunger strike couldn’t even save ye now lol
@Washpenrebel: ‘this is the way’
Chambers, another FF shyster who rose without a trace!
@Brian Hunt: nah he’s been working in my area for years , actually he’s a good lad with incredible work ethic and was fully engaged in transport job he’s had recently.
We do need fresh faces with a high level of competence. I’m not surprised he was picked for the job. As for finance , civil service run that department. He’ll have very little to do except hold up the USB drive on budget day like his predecessors ( who held up a brief case) for the photo op.
He’s a cold, callous weirdo and his expedited ascension from the FF test tube is unnerving.
The Hypocrisy of those in the Dail standing applauding Natasha O Brien, when they have failed her & all other victims of crime.
Sickening watching Helen Mc Entee & the leaders of the parties, when they are the ones responsible for the breakdown of Law & Order & the hames of a Judicial system we have.
The “anger” of Harris & Micheal Martin at the Defence Forces is sickening & deflection from their own failures over the years. No reform of the Judiciary, Legal System or Sentencing as it’s the Golden Circle, while victims pay the price.
Remember Ashling Murphy & that round of applause & things would change & Micheal Martin dismissing her boyfriend. Nothing changed, now another round of applause.
Natasha has done more in one week to highlight their failures & as she says, just do your jobs !
@SV3tN8M4: it was sickening alright, even seeing the shinners clapping given their track record towards women
@SV3tN8M4: you are so so right..Asling Murphy RiP.
Anybody else think Chambers looks like a young version of Stan Smith from American Dad
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
Ouida
I think it’s a great appointment. Just because he is young does not mean he is not capable.
If someone else, who was hinted at, was appointed, people would say here we go again.
Always the trolls.
@rory457: But he’s more than likely Not suitable for the job, but that’s the way it goes in government & sure he doesn’t need to know much as he’ll have loads of advisers!!
@rory457: Nothing to do with “trolls” Rory. Here we go again…
@rory457: he’s a 34 year old with no real job experience,such what can go wrong ???
@rory457: I hope I am wrong but I think his appointment is a bit scary. A senior minister needs to be very experienced and capable of arguing their point against the likes of Pearse Doherty and the mandarins in the Dept of Finance. And he has to have a strong and assertive public persona to put his policies across to the public. He may be highly intelligent but on TV, he couldn’t argue his way out of a paper bag. Just like McEntee.
He has being rushed to the top to counter Simon Harris and FG, he ain’t no Simon Harris. And to give Martin a tighter grip on his party.
For the sake of the country, I wish him well but am not going to hold my breath
@Colette Kearns: And if SF win an election and Doherty is, yes the same Doherty who lied about his qualifications and has never worked in Finance in his entire career, his financial experience was to pay someone 8k from his unclaimed expenses when they should have been returned to the Exchequer…….
For heavens sake
@BarryH: Pearce Doherty lied about his qualifications and is nothing special. I think it’s changing of the Guards and let’s be honest we don’t need 60 year olds deciding for 30 year olds, if he makes a mess the electorate will tell him.
No qualifications in business or economics but sure hay Jack your perfect to run the countries finances. :)
Didn’t he drop out of studying medicine to become a politician?
@James Brennan: Had studied political science in Trinity too
@James Brennan: At least he has a degree.
John doe =orange c,,t
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