HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Court documents reveal new details about the Houston-area woman charged with murder after her child died in a hot car over the summer.

Gbemisola G. Akayinode, 36, was arrested on Friday, October 17, and charged with felony murder in the July 1 death of her 9-year-old daughter. The medical examiner's office ruled Oluwasikemi Akayinode's death a homicide due to hyperthermia or heat exhaustion. Court documents said the girl's body temperature was 108 degrees.

Akayinode's bond was originally set at $1 million but a judge reduced it to $500,000 on Monday.

Harris County investigators said Akayinode admitted that she left the child unattended in her vehicle for hours while she worked at a Galena Park plant. She claimed she gave her a bottle of water, ice cubes, a muffi

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