{"id":59476,"date":"2025-11-19T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/59476\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:49:07","slug":"trial-for-mother-accused-in-hot-car-infant-death-delayed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/59476\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial for mother accused in hot car infant death delayed again"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The murder trial for Maya Hernandez has been delayed once more. Hernandez faces murder charges related to allegedly leaving her 1-year-old son, Amillio Gutierrez, inside a vehicle that reached 101 degrees in June. Amillio died shortly later.<\/p>\n

PREVIOUS REPORTING: Baby dies, toddler hospitalized after being left in hot car; mother faces charges<\/a>
According to Kern County Superior Court officials, this case is looking to possibly start at the beginning of December, at the earliest. A specific date was not given.<\/p>\n

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The Kern County Coroner’s Office confirmed that a 1-year-old Amillio Gutierrez from Visalia died from heat stroke. PHOTO:{ }GoFundMe, KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n

PREVIOUS REPORTING: Trial set for mother accused of leaving children in hot car, resulting in baby’s death<\/a><\/p>\n

Originally set to start last week, the trial was postponed to November 18, only to be pushed back again. <\/p>\n

Hernandez, 20, faces charges of murder, involuntary manslaughter, and child cruelty after her 1-year-old son died on June 29, 2025.<\/p>\n

Her son, Amillio Gutierrez, and his 2-year-old brother were left in the vehicle for over two hours while Hernandez visited a medical sp<\/a>a<\/a> on South Real Road in Bakersfield, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

\"1-year-old<\/p>\n

1-year-old dies in a hot car. (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n

The temperature that afternoon ranged from 99 to 101 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n

\"1-year-old<\/p>\n

1-year-old dies in a hot car. (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n

Court documents show that Hernandez left her children in the car with the air conditioner on. However, a car dealership foreman advised that her vehicle, a Toyota Corolla, shuts off after an hour of inactivity. <\/p>\n

Amillio was pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The murder trial for Maya Hernandez has been delayed once more. Hernandez faces murder charges…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-59476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59476","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=59476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}