Parker County Sheriff's Office/Handout via Reuters
A Texas mother whose two children died after she left them inside a hot car has been arrested. Cynthia Marie Randolph, 24, was arrested over the deaths last month of her daughter, 2, and son, 16 months. The Parker County Sheriff’s Office said Randolph left her kids in the car in order to teach her daughter a lesson. According to a press release, Randolph’s children were playing in the car and she asked them to get out of the car, but her daughter did not comply. She then closed the door to “teach her daughter a ‘lesson,’ thinking ‘she could get herself and her brother out of the car when ready.’” Randolph then went inside, smoked marijuana and fell asleep. When she woke up and found her children still inside, she allegedly broke the car windows to make it look like an accident. Randolph’s story apparently shifted from her initial series of events when police first arrived.