Bulaine Molme told a detective she thought her 11-month-old daughter, Fendra, had been brought into a church by a member of the congregation and was sleeping during a Sunday service. Instead, the tot was dying from overheating in her mom's SUV.
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Responders discovered that the child had been left in a car for approximately three hours by the mother as she and her family attended church services.
The child was taken to a nearby hospital, and doctors worked to bring her to a stable condition. However, she did not survive and was eventually pronounced dead.
Bulaine Molme, 37, was charged with manslaughter of a child after leaving her 11-month-old daughter in her parked car for three hours while she was officiating a church service.