Parker County Mom Arrested for 2 Kids' Deaths Said She Left Them in Hot Car to Teach a Lesson

Parker County Sheriff's investigators have arrested a 25-year-old mother in connection with the deaths of her two children, who she said locked themselves in a hot car in Weatherford last month.Cynthia Marie Randolph has been charged with two first-degree felony counts of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury after admitting to investigators that she left the children in the car to teach her daughter a "lesson."The incident occurred on May 26, when deputies were called just after 4 p.m. to Randolph's home in the 200 block of Rambling Loop, where she reported finding the two children, a 16-month-old boy and a 2-year-old girl, unresponsive.Temperatures had hit 96 degrees in the area, just west of Lake Weatherford.  Continue reading...