Hannah Faith Cormier, Louisiana woman sentenced to 5 years jail in the hot car death of her 10-month-old baby daughter after bringing infant with her to Wendy’s and leaving girl in car while she worked at fast food restaurant only for girl to succumb to 140F heat inside car.
A Louisiana mother whose 10 month old baby daughter died after being left in a hot car while the parent worked at Wendy’s has been sentenced to 5 years prison.
Hannah Faith Cormier, 33, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years jail for the death of her daughter, who has not been publicly identified, according to the Jeff Davis Parish District Attorney’s Office.
Cormier left her daughter in the car for about two hours as she worked at the fast-food joint in Jennings, while outside temperatures reached triple digit Fahrenheit on Aug. 13, 2024. The temperatures that day were in the low 90s with the heat index — or what the temperature actually felt like — of about 106, KADN reported. The temperature in the car was measured at 140 degrees, according to police.
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The girl was rushed to the hospital, where she died the next day.
Cormier initially faced a second-degree murder charge.
‘The situation wasn’t a case of she just forgot the baby in the car,’ Jennings Police Chief Danny Semmes told KADN at the time. ‘That’s what brought us to charging her.’
Semmes said Cormier ‘intentionally’ drove the girl to work. She didn’t have ‘intent to do harm,’ but her actions caused the girl’s death, Semmes told KADN.
A grand jury indicted Cormier on a charge of negligent homicide in October 2024. She pleaded no contest to the charge in July. Prosecutors were seeking between five and 10 years in prison. The sentence was enhanced because the girl was under the age of 10, lawandcrime reported.
What resources and recourses were available to working mother?
‘The death of any child is heartbreaking and losing this 10-month-old baby has deeply affected our whole community,’ District Attorney Lauren Heinen said in a statement. ‘No sentence can bring her back or take away the pain everyone feels. This was a difficult case with tragic circumstances, but every child deserves to be protected. We will continue to stand up for those who can’t speak for themselves.’
Not immediately clear is what resources or recourses the fast food worker was afforded for child daycare, if any, by her employer, along with the worker’s immediate family and community to support the working mother.
