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A mother accused of leaving her 10-month-old baby inside a hot car as she worked a shift at a Wendy\u2019s in Louisiana was sentenced to five years in prison in her daughter\u2019s death, a district attorney announced.<\/p>\n
Hannah Faith Cormier<\/strong> brought her infant to work on August 13, 2024, and later, told police that she had forgotten her daughter was still in the vehicle after she went inside for work, KPLC reported. According to police, temperatures inside the car reached between 140 and 150-degrees.<\/p>\nLater that day, Cormier\u2019s baby was seen at a hospital in Jennings, where Cormier told staff that her baby had been in the car for about an hour and a half, the Jennings Police Department said in an August 14, 2024, news release. Jennings is about a 90-mile drive southwest from Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n
The heat index outside the car was more than 106 degrees as Cormier, then 32, worked at Wendy\u2019s, according to police, KADN-TV reported. Her daughter ultimately died at the hospital.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, January 21, a judge sentenced Cormier to five years of imprisonment, with hard labor, \u201cwithout benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence\u201d in her baby\u2019s death, the Jeff Davis Parish District Attorney\u2019s Office said in a news release.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe death of any child is heartbreaking and losing this 10-month-old baby has deeply affected our whole community,\u201d District Attorney Lauren Heinen<\/strong> said in a statement. \u201cNo sentence can bring her back or take away the pain everyone feels.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThis was a difficult case with tragic circumstances, but every child deserves to be protected,\u201d Heinen added.<\/p>\n
Information on Cormier\u2019s legal representation was not immediately available on Friday, January 23.<\/p>\n
A few months after her daughter\u2019s death, Cormier was indicted on a negligent homicide charge, according to the district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Cormier ultimately pleaded no contest to the charge, the office announced in July 2025.<\/p>\n
Louisiana law defines negligent homicide \u201cas the killing of a human being by criminal negligence,\u201d the district attorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
Jennings Police Chief Danny Semmes<\/strong> previously said that investigators believe that Cormier \u201cintentionally took the child to work and left her in the hot car, not with the intent to do harm to the child, but by her actions, harm was caused,\u201d according to KADN-TV.<\/p>\nCormier\u2019s daughter\u2019s body temperature was measured at 109 degrees at the hospital on August 13, 2024, according to police, the Associated Press reported. Police said the girl died from a heat stroke.<\/p>\n
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