"the Arab boyfriend told her to dump the kids, strapped into car seats, in the middle of a busy highway. She did so."
So they tried to kill the kids, not just abandon them?
From the Fort Worth paper: "her twin daughters, then 22 months old, were left in the traffic lanes of Texas 199 in Lake Worth on Memorial Day 2003."
And it appears that she was going to get deferred adjudication (probation and no felony on her record) from this judge if she hadn't jumped bail.