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Death Penalty
Police: Children die in hot car while mom at salon
June 29, 2002 Posted: 6:46 PM EDT (2246 GMT)
SOUTHFIELD, Michigan (CNN) -- A Detroit woman whose two small children died in her car while she was getting her hair styled has been taken into custody, police said.
"There's no excuse for it. This woman's a criminal. I'm going for murder one," said Southfield Chief of Police Joseph E. Thomas.
The woman confessed that she left her 10-month-old daughter and 3-year-old son in her 1995 black Dodge Neon for more than three hours Friday afternoon, Thomas said.
Tara Maynor, 25, was a regular at Utopia Salon of Southfield, where she had an appointment Friday to have her hair curled, said the shop owner, Bruce Moore.
Around 11 p.m. Friday, officers responded to Providence Hospital on a report that the bodies of the two children had been brought in by their mother.
The girl, Acacia Darcell Maynor, and her older brother, Adonnis Dominuque Maynor, were pronounced dead at the hospital, police said.
The mother initially told investigators she had been abducted from the parking lot of the salon, raped, and then returned to her car, which was in the lot.
There, she said, she found her children still inside the car, according to Thomas.
But late Friday night, she confessed that she had left the children unattended in the car for more than three hours during the afternoon, while she was having her hair done, Thomas said.
"The temperature was in the mid 80s," he said. "It had to be between 115 and 120 degrees in that car."
After the mother discovered her children were dead, she drove around for about an hour, "trying to conjure up an excuse for her actions," Thomas said.
Only after concocting the rape story did she take the children to Providence Hospital, Thomas said.
The woman is being held in the Oakland County Jail Southfield Annex "pending further review by the prosecutor's office, which will probably come early next week," said Det. John Harris.
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I am not an advocate of the death penalty by far but this is just downright disgusting. My family doesn't leave my six year old sister ANYWHERE by herself. If my mother has to get her hair done, they both will be getting their hair done.
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