Texas Mother Charged With Death Of Her Two Kids

A Texas woman has been charged with the death of her two children last month after she left them in her hot car as punishment, the Parker County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.    She faces two counts of causing bodily injury to a child, NBC reported, citing a criminal complaint.
Sheriff’s officials said Cynthia Marie Randolph initially told investigators her 2-year-old girl and 16-month-old boy locked themselves in the car on May 26 when they died, but her account changed over the course of several interviews.
But on Friday she told investigators she left the children in the car as a form of punishment after she found them playing in the vehicle and refused to get out.
She said she thought her older daughter would have been able to leave the car.
Authorities said she went back into her home, smoked marijuana, and returned up to three hours later to find her children unresponsive before breaking the car window, the complaint said, in order to support her initial claim that they had locked themselves inside.
Temperatures on the day the two children were discovered dead in the vehicle reached the mid-90s (mid-30s Celsius).