Police officer mum left daughter, 3, to die in sweltering 40C car so she could have sex with her boss

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.