WILLIAMSPORT - A Lycoming County woman has been acquitted of charges stemming from the death of a 4-year-old girl left for hours in a sweltering SUV on a hot July day in 2016.

A jury of seven men and five women deliberated about three hours Friday before finding Brittany Renee Borgess, 30, of DuBoistown, innocent of charges of involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of children and recklessly endangering.

Senior Judge Dudley N. Anderson found her guilty of the summary charge of leaving a child unattended in a car and fined her $25.

Family and friends of the victim, Samaria Motyka, erupted when the verdict was read, some using profanity. Sheriff's deputies escorted several from the courtroom.

Samaria Motyka was found unresponsive around 3:30 p.m. on July 22, 2016.

They continued to voice their displeasure standing outside the courthouse in the rain. Deputies escorted Borgess and her family from the building.

Borgess had no comment about the verdict but her lawyer, Peter T. Campana, said justice was served.

He had asked jurors to base their verdict on the evidence not emotion. "No matter your verdict, Samaria will not be brought back," he said.

District Attorney Kenneth Osokow remarked it was a very difficult case. Jurors had to decide whether leaving Samaria in the SUV was a criminal act or lapse of memory.

There was no dispute that the morning of July 22, 2016, Borgess took her 2-year-old son, Isaac, to a day care just north of Williamsport. Instead of taking Samaria to a day care in South Williamsport, she then drove to work.

She backed into a parking stall at the rear of the downtown business where there was no shade and went inside, leaving Samaria buckled into a booster seat in the back seat.

The young girl was found unresponsive 61/2 hours later about 3:30 p.m. on the floor with her head on the front passenger seat. She had gotten out of the booster seat.

The mercury hit 97 that day in Williamsport. Samaria's internal temperature taken at Williamsport Regional Medical Center was 110 degrees.

First Assistant District Attorney Martin Wade told jurors there was no reasonable explanation why Borgess left the girl in the SUV.

Campana contended a brain malfunction caused her to lose awareness. Borgess did not consciously disregard or knowingly forget Samaria was in the SUV, he argued in his closing.

She was chronically sleep deprived and under stress because she was about to get married, he said.

There was testimony saying that Borgess would be the one who got up in the middle of the night if the children needed anything.

Campana relied on the testimony of David Diamond, a professor of neuroscience at the University of South Florida, who has done extensive research on the brain and why someone's prospective memory suddenly fails.

Diamond described how the habit-based memory system suppresses other memory systems in explaining why Borgess likely drove to work instead of to the South Williamsport day care.

Nationally, between 30 and 50 children die annually from heat stroke from being in a hot vehicle, he said. Samaria's death was the only one in Pennsylvania in 2016.

Wade, in his closing, questioned how Borgess could forget about Samaria when she spoke to her three minutes earlier when she dropped off her son at the other day care.

Forgetfulness is not a reasonable excuse for what she did, he argued. "It's absurd to leave a child to die in a car," he said.

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The fact that previously she had driven almost to work before realizing she had children in the back should have been a signal to her, Wade said.

Borgess cried briefly when he accused her of being reckless and not fulfilling her duty to care for Samaria, who she had taken to the same day care for two years.

In July 2016, Borgess was living in DuBoistown with Samaria, her father, William Motyka, his older daughter and her son. Borgess and Motyka are no longer in a relationship.