Mom sentenced for leaving her two daughters, aged 2 and 3, to d!e in hot car while gambling at casino


Mom sentenced for leaving her two daughters, aged 2 and 3, to d!e in hot car while gambling at casino
A 31-year-old mother has been sentenced for causing the d*ath of her two daughters after she left them inside a car in sweltering weather while she gambled at a casino in North Carolina, U.S.
Launice Shanique Battle, was sentenced on Thursday, July 25, 2024 after she pleaded guilty to the murder of her daughters, Trinity Milbourne, two, and Amora, three. Autopsy revealed that the girls d!ed of hyperthermia, which occurs when the body is exposed to extremely high temperatures. Battle will serve a sentence of a little over seven years, with a possibility of up to 10 and a half years. She was initially charged with two counts of felony m@rder, facing over 80 years in prison.
However, she reached a plea deal with the prosecution and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. The judge determined that her guilty plea demonstrated her acceptance of responsibility for her actions, warranting a lesser sentence. Battle was arrested in August 27, 2022 after she went to a casino in Raleigh and left her children in the car while she gambled for six hours. On that day, Battle parked her car partially in the shade while temperatures soared to 35°C. It was reported that she left the children at 2:30pm and only returned at 8:30pm and found them unconscious. She rushed the girls to hospital where they were immediately pronounced dead. A medical report stated that the girls’ remains were already in stages of ‘mild decomposition’ when they were found. Meanwhile, Battles’ cousin, Keisha Harris, spoke to WRAL and described her cousin as a responsible parent who just did a ‘careless mistake’

“She was a young girl who might have been experiencing depression or whatever the case may be, she just made a bad decision,” Harris said.

“She was always there. She’s a caring and loving mother to her kids at the end of the day. She’s not a cold-blooded m@rderer. She’s not a k!ller."

Other family members said the deaths were “a careless mistake.

Another cousin, Lisacious Williams, said the family loves “Launice no matter what, and we will support for no matter what

Source: https://x.com/lindaikeji/status/1817587079536345301?t=w5v4a-NognQ5-f7ejfHeMg&s=19

If her family say so...

Please forgive her

RIP to the young bloods...
Please come back again

If it's understandable please forgive her. If her reasons are reasonable.
May their souls rest in peace

This kind of occurrence is getting too frequent in the USA, what is happening? It now has a name even -hot car death or something like that. The pains the poor children passed through before succumbing to heat stroke and lack of oxygen is unimaginable. Careless parents that let this happen to their children deserve to be imprisoned for life

Poor little babies. What a horrible way to have died.

Gambling away for six long hours, while they struggled to stay alive.

Healing to all the bereaved plus the extremely careless mom.

mother from hell! but why American too like gambling?

7yrs for the life of 2 children....imagine?!?!?! thats a slap on the wrist, then you wonder why crime is so rampant in the US.

Gregorystarrrr:
If it's understandable please forgive her. If her reasons are reasonable.
May their souls rest in peace

so gambling is a reasonable reason to leave your kids to die in a car?

- She lost her 2 children
- She automatically said no more to gambling
- She will spend years in jail
- All her life she will be regretting what she did to herself and her beautiful children
- She will serve jail in pain over the loss
- She learnt her lesson the hard way

It is a very sad story indeed. She probably thought the children would disturb her and the car which should have provided safety, destroyed them. What a pity.

People over there glorify money above their lives.