Cristina died on August 5, 2019 after she was left unattended inside her mother’s 2012 Volkswagen Jetta for an estimated five hours - with temperatures within the vehicle climbing as high as 130 degrees. As first responders arrived on the scene and found the young girl non-responsive, Cristina’s mother Rita Pangalangan - a local school teacher - claimed she had only left her daughter in the car for a few minutes while she went inside her boyfriend’s home to get her cigarettes.
Rita Pangalangan claimed she and her boyfriend - 45-year-old Larry King, Jr. of Walterboro - found the girl locked inside the car.
Home security footage seized from the King’s home told a very different story. Specifically, it showed Pangalangan and King putting the Cristina in the vehicle at approximately 11:15 a.m. EDT and leaving her there for approximately an hour while they went inside King’s home. After checking on her briefly, the couple reentered King’s home where they stayed there for another three hours - at which point they departed the residence in King’s truck, leaving Cristina unattended in the vehicle for yet another hour.
Cristina was born with developmental and intellectual disabilities so severe she was wheelchair bound and unable to communicate verbally. She required constant care.
Rita Pangalangan and Larry King were convicted of inflicting great bodily injury on a child. Pangalangan was sentenced to 37 years in prison and King to 32 years.
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9 фев 2024
