Maya Hernandez charged for choosing BBL over sons safety.
Some headlines just make you stop scrolling and scream internally. Case in point: Maya Hernandez is now trending for all the wrong reasons. Why? Because while her one-year-old son baked in a hot car, she was inside getting a Brazilian butt lift. Yes, let that sink in.
Let’s set the scene: It’s a scorching day. Hernandez strolls into a med spa like she’s about to do a TikTok dance, only it’s a BBL, not a cute trend. Meanwhile, her tiny sons are strapped into a car, sweating, screaming, and, tragically, one of them dies. The internet collectively threw its hands up and said, “Wait… WHAT?”
Testifying for several hours, Hernandez described packing her sons into her car that morning and driving from Visalia to Bakersfield. She said before leaving, she and the children ate breakfast, including fruit cups and bananas.
Hernandez told jurors she works as a certified nursing assistant in Visalia and was the primary provider for her family. Wakeman displayed family photographs during her testimony, emphasizing her efforts to care for and support her children.
According to testimony, both boys were full-term births without medical complications. Hernandez said Mateo breastfed for seven to eight months and Amillio for about four months, before she returned to work.
The law stands tall and I hope Maya Hernandez gets served what she deserves for her negligence.
Jurors also heard a recording of Hernandez’s 911 call from the day of the incident, in which she can be heard speaking frantically with dispatchers and attempting CPR on Amillio.
During cross-examination, Deputy District Attorney Stephanie Taconi questioned Hernandez about text messages indicating she was allowed to bring her children inside the business for her appointment.
Taconi also raised other risks Hernandez could have considered, such as the possibility of the car being stolen with the keys inside or one of the children choking while unattended. Hernandez responded that she did not think of those scenarios at the time.
“You didn’t think of any of those things,” Taconi said.
Hernandez testified she believed the boys would be safe inside the vehicle and did not suspect the car could shut off while parked. She told jurors it was not until after the incident that she began to fully understand the consequences of her decisions.
Maya Hernandez might have left the spa with a brand-new butt, but the internet will forever remember her as the bad mom who chose BBL over her son’s life.
