An investigation spanning over a week, shed light on the death of a 5-year old Texas boy that was left in a hot car outside an elementary school.
Police say 37-year old Diana Treviño-Montelongo is the aunt of the victim, who died on Aug. 25. She was charged on Thursday with criminally negligent homicide.
She posted $50,000 bond for her release.
The child, who remain unnamed, was left inside a car that had been parked at Dr. Americo Paredes Elementary School in Mission, where Treviño-Montelongo is a teacher.
The boy attended the same school, La Joya ISD police Chief Raul Gonzalez previously said in a news conference.
He was found unresponsive inside a car in the school’s parking lot just after 4 p.m. on Aug. 25.
He was taken to the nurse’s office, where CPR was performed, but the boy was pronounced dead, Gonzalez said.
Superintendent Gisela Saenza said it was an isolated incident, and grief counselors were made available to students and staff.
The La Joya Independent School District has placed Treviño-Montelongo on paid administrative leave. She was a 5th grade teacher at the elementary school that her nephew also attended.
The boy died from heat asphyxiation, medical examiners determined. Temperatures had reached 101 degrees the day the boy was left in the vehicle.
The Monitor reports that Treviño-Montelongo was named the school’s teacher of the year in April. Treviño-Montelongo spoke about the honor in a YouTube video.
“My passion for education? Well, I originally wanted to be a social worker, cause I always wanted to help kids and be able to be there for them,” she explains in the video. “But then I was thinking about it, and I was like, that’s gonna be kinda tough. I think being in a classroom, I can be there for them in a better way.”
leave her in a hot box until she goes too! Let her suffer just like this poor child! Plus what is this crap —she gets PAID admin leave as she goes through an incredibly slow justice system? when the evidence for immediate termination is so plainly obvious! She is “supposed to be a “TEACHER” what is going on in this world? Is it the water that they are drinking or the stuff that they are spraying in the air (chem trails). When I was a kid “JETCONTRAILS” disappeared quickly and certainly did not make checkerboard patterns or giant “X” patterns that last for HOURS and just spread slowly or quickly depending on the air currents at the time spread across the sky I wonder wart is going on with that?
I totally agree!!! This world has gone MAD!! I wonder what political party supports this out on LOW bail for heinous crimes??? I have a pretty good idea..
She needs to be locked up for life in a hot cell!
And yes, they are trying to kill us with chemtrails!
Been going on for decades! Pure evil!!
well she is one , that’s an outcast within her family and probably the most hated by her family, she need to be asked was it worth risking that child life? what was so darn important that she could not take that kid inside with her, and why on Earth did she leave that kid in that hot ass moving oven that baked that poor child, now she really need to burn baby burn, the justice system need to have no Mercy on that sorry ass , child killer bitch
$50K bond is bulls*t. This gal needs jailtime.