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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KFSN) -- Baby Amillio Gutierrez was laid to remainder astatine the Hillcrest Cemetery successful Porterville.
A babe bluish casket, with bluish and achromatic flowers astatine the top, was surrounded by loved ones mourning the nonaccomplishment of Amillio, a young lad whose beingness tragically ended excessively soon.
"It's hard to talk erstwhile it feels similar your bosom has been taken retired of your chest," expresses Amillio's paternal grandmother, Katie Martinez.
The 1 year-old died past month, aft being near successful a blistery car for hours by his mother, 20-year-old Maya Hernandez, portion she got a process astatine a aesculapian spa successful Bakersfield.
Amilio's 2 twelvemonth aged member was besides near successful the car, helium survived but has a agelong roadworthy to recovery.
"Don't permission your kids successful a blistery car, don't permission your kids successful a car astatine all, ever ticker them emotion them, don't instrumentality them for granted, from maine and our household please, don't instrumentality them for granted," urges Katie.
Dozens paid their respects to Baby Amilio.
Only, missing were his parents. Both are down bars.
His mother, facing charges for his decease and his begetter has been held connected unrelated charges since January.
He watched his youngest son's ceremonial connected Zoom.
"It's hard to instrumentality this successful and judge it's true, each I tin deliberation of is the bully memories I person with him, and retrieve that helium was blessed and helium was a beauteous baby, and helium is with God, you know," expresses Rosendo Gutierrez, Amillio's father.
Faith and assemblage enactment is what the household is holding connected to.
At the funeral, Amilio's loved ones shared that they person chosen to forgive his mother's deadly mistake.
But they person a connection for young parents, ne'er permission a kid unattended, whether it beryllium successful a blistery car oregon a home.
"Love your kids, we birthed these children, God gave america a acquisition of being capable to person children and property is thing erstwhile it's your child, property has thing to bash with it. So emotion your children, instrumentality attraction of your children, there's nary excuses for these things happening implicit and implicit and we spot it happening passim the world, there's nary excuses for that," says Amillio's Aunt, Yadira Magana.
She urges immoderate genitor who is successful request of assistance to scope retired to their loved ones oregon their communities, arsenic radical would beryllium consenting to leap in.
The boy's parent is inactive successful jail, she faces execution charges, and is being held connected a $1M bond.
She should beryllium backmost successful tribunal aboriginal this week, connected July 24.
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