Mom plays game on FB as baby drowns
Shannon Johnson told police she was playing Cafe World on Facebook while her child drowned
A mother has been charged with child abuse and negligence in related to the death of her one-year-old son in the United States.
Shannon Johnson, 34, told police that she was playing the game Café World on Facebook in the living room after putting the boy in the bathtub.
The son was found drown soon after, in the Sept 20 incident last year.
Colorado's Weld County district attorney's office said Johnson has been charged with child abuse and recklessly causing death.
Johnson requested a lawyer during a hearing on Friday.
She is being held on US$100,000 (RM306,050) bond.
An investigator said Johnson told him that she went to check on the son when she did not hear him.
She found the boy sideways with his face in the water.
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Source: AP / Agencies
Published Jan 15 2011
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1 comments:
One year old is nowhere near old enough to be left unattended in the bath. I don't know if what she did can be called child abuse, but it's certainly negligence of the worst kind.
And it's far too easy to blame this on the Facebook game. There have always been distractions in life and always will be. It could have been a phone call, a book, a film that was commanding her attention. You don't see childrens charities running campaigns against any of these things and that's because they're a natural part of everyday life. Any parent worth their salt is willing and able to set those distractions aside.
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