Week in Review : MAJOR EVENTS, IMAGES AND PEOPLE IN ORANGE COUNTY NEWS : COURTS : Woman Who Left Twins in Car Pleads Not Guilty
Beverly Jean Ernst, the mother of infant twins who died of heat stroke when they were left unattended in a car last month, this week was charged with two counts each of involuntary manslaughter and involuntary child endangerment.
Ernst, 25, of Anaheim pleaded not guilty.
Her 3-month-old infants died July 20 after she left them in her car while she visited a friend at a Garden Grove janitorial supply store.
The district attorney’s office initially asked that Ernst be held on $25,000 bail, but Municipal Judge Marvin G. Weeks released her without bail. The judge also scheduled an Aug. 29 pretrial hearing and a Sept. 15 preliminary hearing in West Municipal Court in Westminster.
Ernst said nothing during her brief arraignment. Flanked by her older brother and three friends, she shielded her face from television cameras as she left.
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