A mother from Louisiana has been charged with murder after leaving her baby daughter to die in a hot vehicle, three years after doing the same thing to her other daughter, who survived and was taken away by social services.
Sunday, Ivy Lynn Lee, 22, of Lake Charles, left her six-month-old baby Rissa in a hot vehicle while she was at work for five hours.
The mother of two had alerted a police officer that her daughter was ‘not breathing’
Officers attempted to save the child’s life before transferring her to the hospital, where she was declared dead.
During an interview with detectives, Lee provided two contradictory accounts. Initially, she claimed that Rissa was not in her care, but she then revealed that she had left the girl in her vehicle while at work.
‘She knew that baby was in the car and she chose to go to work for an entire shift. There is no excuse,’ Calcasieu Parish Chief Deputy Gary ‘Stitch’ Guillory told WAFB.