A Dallas mother has been arrested after Frisco police determined she "intentionally" left her 15-month-old child in a hot car earlier this month.

Detectives with the Frisco Police Department responded to Medical City Plano the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 16, after someone alerted law enforcement of an infant death in the 3200 block of Preston Road.

Vanessa Esquivel Frisco Police Department

From the investigation, detectives learned that the mother, 27-year-old Vanessa Esquivel of Dallas, arrived at her workplace around 2 p.m. Saturday. Investigators believe that Esquivel "intentionally left her 15-month-old child for over two hours in a vehicle she knew did not have working air conditioning with an outside temperature of at least 95 degrees."

Frisco Detectives say because Esquive

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