An 11-month-old boy dead after being left in a car for hours.
FOX4 is hearing from the little boy’s mom who is demanding the person who left her child in that car be charged.
“Augy needs to matter, and I feel like right now Augy does not matter,” Persyda Trevino, that little boy’s mom said.
Police ruled the baby’s death a homicide four months ago and turned the case over to the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office.
“It was purely intentional, should have never happened,” Trevino said.
Trevino says August was with his two siblings, one 3 years old and the other 5 years old.
It was a call from their dad that has put Trevino in this terribly heartbreaking position.
“I have the biggest regret that I wasn’t there and that’s really what gets me because I wasn’t there,” she said.
That call telling her that her 11-month-old son was in the hospital. Baby August had a metabolic condition requiring him to be fed every three hours, his body temperature could not regulate itself, he couldn’t be too hot or too cold.
She went to the hospital where the baby battled for seven days before he passed away.
But his death wasn’t tied to his condition, instead doctors determined he died of a heat stroke, his body temperature coming in at more than 105 degrees.
By September detectives ruled baby Augy’s death a homicide, telling Trevino that the three kids were left in the car by themselves for hours.
“It’s 2024, this happened eight months ago and we’re still sitting here on absolutely nothing,” she said.
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