Relatives broke the window of the white Ford Expedition parked near the mother’s California apartment and pulled the limp 3-year-old from the scorching car.
But Ily Elizabeth Ruiz was already dead, with Anaheim police saying in a press release that they believe she died of complications from heat stroke on Friday, Sept. 6. (Her autopsy is pending.)
Her mother, Sandra Hernandez-Cazares — allegedly unconscious in the locked vehicle with “a blood alcohol content of nearly four times the legal limit,” according to a press release from Orange County prosecutors — is charged with felony involuntary manslaughter and felony child abuse causing great bodily injury, with an enhancement charge based on Ily’s age, per online court information.
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Prosecutors said in the press release that Hernandez-Cazares and the father of their four children had pushed for stricter DUI laws after their two young sons were fatally run over by a drunk driver while camping in …