{"id":77017,"date":"2025-10-21T15:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77017"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:23:51","slug":"nigerian-mother-charged-after-daughter-dies-in-hot-car-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/21\/nigerian-mother-charged-after-daughter-dies-in-hot-car-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Mother Charged After Daughter Dies in Hot Car in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A 36-year-old Nigerian woman, Gbemisola Akayinode, has been charged with murder after her nine-year-old daughter, Oluwasikemi, died from heat exposure inside a parked car in Texas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez confirmed that Akayinode was arrested after the medical examiner ruled the child\u2019s death a homicide caused by hyperthermia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Investigations revealed that on July 1, Akayinode left her daughter inside the car for over eight hours while she worked at a manufacturing plant in Galena Park, near Houston. Temperatures reportedly soared to 99\u00b0F.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Police said she left the child with food, water, a fan, and melatonin to induce sleep. When she returned, the girl was unresponsive and later confirmed dead at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Court records show Akayinode had taken her daughter to work several times despite her employer offering to cover daycare costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda A 36-year-old Nigerian woman, Gbemisola Akayinode, has been charged with murder after her nine-year-old daughter, Oluwasikemi, died from heat exposure inside a parked car in Texas. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez confirmed that Akayinode was arrested after the medical examiner ruled the child\u2019s death a homicide caused by hyperthermia. Investigations revealed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":77018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77019,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77017\/revisions\/77019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}