Daycare owners who left two toddlers in van during heatwave leading to death of 22-month-old girl claim it was an accident
22-month old Maliyah Jones and two-year-old Aubrianna Loya suffered extreme heat exposure after Mary Taylor, 67, and Sandi Taylor, 31, failed to retrieve them from their van
A mother and daughter duo were charged with the death of one child and severe injury of another when they failed to retrieve the children from their van which was parked in the sun for almost 90 minutes back in the heatwave of July 2017.
The accused, Mary Taylor, 67, and Sandi Taylor, 31 who run Taylor Tots Daycare in Portales, appeared in a Roosevelt County courtroom for the first day of trial on 30 January, and the trial is expected to last till 7 February.
