Two toddlers are dead after authorities in Texas say their mother intentionally left them inside of a car for more than 15 hours as she hung out with friends on Tuesday night. Amanda Hawkins, 19, was arrested on two counts of abandoning or endangering a child following the tragedy involving her young daughters, the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. There, their mother told hospital staff that the girls collapsed after smelling flowers at a lake, Sheriff W.R. “Rusty” Hierholzer said in a release. “They thought maybe they got into something poisonous,” Hierholzer recalled the mom’s story to Fox San Antonio. He said the story, however, quickly started to fall apart.

Source: Huffington Post June 10, 2017 17:26 UTC