BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A Brevard County pastor charged in the death of her baby found in a hot car is set to appear in court Wednesday for a plea hearing, less than one month after prosecutors reduced her charges.
Bulaine Molme was arrested last summer after her nearly 1-year-old baby, Fendra Molme, was left alone in the car for three hours and was found in a car seat with a body temperature of 108 degrees at Mount of Olives Evangelical Baptist Church in Palm Bay.
Molme, a pastor, told police she thought other members of the church took the baby out of the car while she was getting ready for the service. Investigators learned she arrived late to the service.
In an interview with a church member, they told police that someone else would normally take care of Molme’s baby in church. But on that morning, police said surveillance video showed Bulaine Molme and her three older children get out of the car while no one grabbed the baby.
She was first facing a first-degree felony of aggravated manslaughter of a child, but prosecutors later reduced the charges to a third-degree felony of leaving a child alone in a car with bodily harm after reviewing the case.
Molme has been out of jail on bond since last summer.
Her plea hearing is set for Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.
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