New Mexico day care workers’ convictions reversed in 2017 death of toddler inside hot car
Associated Press
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court has granted a new trial for two day care workers convicted of child abuse in the 2017 death of a 1-year-old girl left in a hot car and the serious injury of another toddler. The court on Thursday reversed the convictions of Mary Taylor and her adult daughter Sandi Taylor after it found that the jury was given a set of confusing instructions at their joint trial in 2019. The women operated a licensed day care center in their home. Authorities say they drove a group of children to a nearby park in July 2017 but left two girls in the hot car for nearly three hours. The high temperature near Portales that day was 95 degrees.
