A North Texas woman has been found guilty of murder after investigators said she left her infant child in a hot car outside her workplace in Frisco. Frisco police said 27-year-old Vanessa Esquivel left her 15-month-old child inside a vehicle in August 2025. Investigators said the child was lef t in the vehicle for more than two hours without working air conditioning while outside temperatures reached at least 95 degrees. Esquivel was sentenced to 25 years in prison. This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC DFW. AI tools helped convert the story into a digital article, and an NBC DFW journalist edited it again before publication. ...read more read less