A 26-year-old Alamo woman was charged on Wednesday in connection with the strangling death of her 1-year-old child, according to the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office.

The child was found in Ashley Jasmine Rivera’s vehicle on Oct. 31 with a car seat strap around the baby’s neck, according to a news release.

Deputies with the sheriff’s office responded to the 8100 block of N. FM 88 in rural Weslaco that day shortly before 9 p.m. and found the lifeless child inside a Ford Fusion.

Rivera told investigators she arrived at the location with four children and exited the vehicle with three of the children because the 1-year-old child was asleep, the news release said.

A witness told investigators that he went to check on the child 20 to 30 minutes later and found the child was “unresponsive.”

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