Cassie Barker, 29, strapped her toddler daughter into a car seat for four hours while she romped with her supervisor at his home in Mississippi, US
A POLICE officer mum left her three-year-old daughter to die in sweltering hot 40C car so she could have sex with her boss.
Cassie Barker, 29, strapped toddler Cheyenne Hyer into a car seat for four hours while she romped with her supervisor at his home in Mississippi, US.
The negligent mum is set to be jailed for 20 years after admitting to manslaughter on Monday.
Barker reportedly admitted she was having sex with her supervisor Clark Ladner whle the child roasted to death in September 2016.
The mum left the car running, and air conditioning on, but it was not blowing cold air.
Cheyenne was running a temperature of 41.7C when she was admitted to hospital that evening, totally unresponsive.
Judge Larry Bourgeois said: “I don’t know what I could ever do to you that could be worse than what you’ve already experienced… You will forever be entombed in a prison of your own mind.”
You will forever be entombed in a prison of your own mind.
Judge Larry Bourgeois
The father of the child, Ryan Hyer, told the court Monday: “Every time I close my eyes, I picture her suffering and then I picture her laying in this coffin.”
Barker will be sentenced on April 1.
Barker originally claimed she had just been talking to Ladner at his home, and fell asleep.
Both were fired from their jobs by the Mississippi Gulf Coast Police’s Long Beach Police Department within days of the toddler’s death.
Ladner has not been charged.
Prosecutors reportedly believed his story that he did not realise Cheyenne had been left in her mom’s car.
This wasn’t the first time the child was left in a car.
The child was reportedly left alone in a car by Barker in April 2015, when her mom ran into a store, reported.
That saw Cheyenne temporarily taken into custody by social services.
Ryan Hyer is now suing Long Beach PD and the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services , saying they should have punished Barker more severely after she was caught abandoning Cheyenne in 2015.
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