BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Two days after one-year-old Amillio Gutierrez died from heat stroke, detectives pressed his mother on her mindset leading up to leaving Amillio and his brother in a hot car.

“What do you think could happen if you leave your kids there?” Lead Detective Kyle McNabb asked Hernandez in a recording. The video was of the second interview with Hernandez, following her official arrest.

“What happened, I guess. I don’t know,” she said.

During the second recorded interview, which was played for the jury Thursday, Hernandez tells detectives that she is a certified nursing assistant. She said she’d seen things in the news and from people in general about the dangers of leaving children in the car alone.

“I didn’t leave him in there to die,” she said in the recording.

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