Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A Texas woman on Monday pleaded guilty to abandoning her two toddlers in a locked car for several hours, leading to their death.
Before her trial was set to begin, Amanda Kristene Hawkins pleaded guilty to two counts of abandoning a child, causing imminent danger of death, bodily injury or physical or mental impairment; and two counts of injury to a child, recklessly causing serious bodily injury or serious mental deficiency.