{"id":10008,"date":"2025-10-18T17:18:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10008\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T17:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:18:37","slug":"houston-mother-charged-with-murder-after-9-year-old-daughter-left-in-unattended-car-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10008\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston mother charged with murder after 9-year-old daughter left in unattended car, sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Houston mother has been charged with murder after allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/galena-park-child-dies-hot-car-20404248.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:leaving her 9-year-old daughter in a car;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">leaving her 9-year-old daughter in a car<\/a> for several hours in July, according to\u00a0Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gbemisola G. Akayinode, 36, allegedly left her daughter in an unattended vehicle on July 1 in the parking lot of an industrial complex in the 1200 block of Mayo Shell Road in Galena Park, Gonzalez said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SheriffEd_HCSO\/status\/1979310650103902475\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in a post on X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">in a post on X<\/a>. The child, identified as\u00a0Oluwasikemi Akayinode, was taken to LBJ Hospital, where she was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">IN COURT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/crime\/article\/kristina-chambers-trial-21100498.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Woman details last moments before her first date killed outside Voodoo Doughnuts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Woman details last moments before her first date killed outside Voodoo Doughnuts<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Temperatures exceeded 90 degrees on the afternoon of her death, according to previous Chronicle reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The child died from hypothermia, according to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Science. Her death was ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Akayinode was in custody at the Harris County Jail. Bond information was not available late Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/crime\/article\/mother-murder-charge-daughter-21106779.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston mother charged with murder after 9-year-old daughter left in unattended car, sheriff says;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston mother charged with murder after 9-year-old daughter left in unattended car, sheriff says<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Houston mother has been charged with murder after allegedly leaving her 9-year-old daughter in a car for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9129,8795,405,56,3747,58,57,9130],"class_list":["post-10008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-daughter","tag-ed-gonzalez","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-chronicle","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-unattended-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}