In the United States, a 32-year-old woman fell asleep in a car and killed her son.

In the US state of Georgia, Candice Grace, a 32-year-old mother with many children, was blamed for the death of her 7-year-old son Maisie Simmons. This was reported on October 2 by People magazine.

Candice Grace, 32, has been charged with second-degree murder and second—degree child abuse in connection with the death of her son, Maisie Simmons.

The tragedy happened on April 6. The police were called by a man who found a car near his house. He told law enforcement officers that the glass of the car from the rear passenger seat pressed the boy's throat. According to the witness, the boy's mother was sleeping in the front seat of the car, and his younger brother and sister were sitting next to the child.

The child was taken to the hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead. During the interrogation, Grace was in an inadequate condition, the analysis showed the presence of drugs in her blood, the police said.

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The man received two years of probation and three more years of probation.

On November 19 last year, the mutilated body of the adopted daughter of a former employee of the Department of Family and Children, Diana Natasha Mack, was found in Sebring, Florida. During the investigation, law enforcement agencies found surveillance cameras that indicated that the girl was locked in the garage, beaten and starved.

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