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2 Arizona children found dead in car seats laid to rest

AZ kids found dead in car seats laid to rest
Posted at 12:18 PM, Apr 08, 2018
and last updated 2018-04-09 09:32:11-04

Two Arizona children who died after being left strapped in car seats in a vehicle for hours have been buried together.

The Casa Grande Dispatch reports the bodies of 2-year-old Lorenzo Velasquez and 9-month-old Brooklyn Velasquez were laid beside each other in the same pearly white casket at their funeral Saturday in the town of Superior.

The children's mother -- 20-year-old Brittany Velasquez -- has been indicted on two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of child abuse.

Authorities say she was the last person to see her children alive when she left them in a car outside of a family home and went to work on the morning of March 26.

She has blamed their deaths on someone she said was supposed to be watching them.