{"id":180103,"date":"2026-02-16T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180103\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:28:02","slug":"maya-hernandez-takes-plea-after-children-left-in-hot-car-at-medical-spa-killing-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180103\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Hernandez takes plea after children left in hot car at medical spa, killing one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/search?find=Maya+Hernandez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maya Hernandez<\/a>, a Visalia mother convicted of child abuse after leaving her two sons in a hot car, took a plea agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter. The murder charge was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/retrial-hearing-for-maya-hernandez-postponed-to-next-week-court-crime-bakersfield-california-spa-treatment-second-degree-murder-manslaughter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hearing for Maya Hernandez postponed to next week<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In December, a jury was deadlocked on a second-degree murder charge, leading to a mistrial on that charge and involuntary manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/visalia-mother-found-guilty-of-child-endangerment-murder-charge-mistrial-declared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visalia mother found guilty of child endangerment; murder charge mistrial declared<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In a tense day of closing arguments, prosecutors and defense attorneys presented sharply contrasting narratives in the case of Maya Hernandez, the mother charged in the hot-car death of her one-year-old son, Amilio, and the alleged endangerment of his two-year-old brother, Mateo, as she attended a medical spa for a liquid BBL in Bakersfield. KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9f0ab8c0-864f-4a00-b808-08a7a414a957-HERNANDEZCOURT_frame_20501.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a tense day of closing arguments, prosecutors and defense attorneys presented sharply contrasting narratives in the case of Maya Hernandez, the mother charged in the hot-car death of her one-year-old son, Amilio, and the alleged endangerment of his two-year-old brother, Mateo, as she attended a medical spa for a liquid BBL in Bakersfield. KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>Last June, Hernandez left her two sons in a hot car while she got a cosmetic procedure at a Bakersfield medical spa. Her one-year-old son, Amillio, died.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (5)<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez\u2019s sentencing is scheduled for March 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Maya Hernandez, a Visalia mother convicted of child abuse after leaving her two sons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-180103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}