Toddlers drown in pond while babysitter naps
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CableChick
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CMC122 said:
CableChick
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sockgirl77 said:
No, the door just needs to "latch shut" ...
CableChick said:
My dishwasher just closes - no other latch. But you have to start it manually, so it's unlikely that my cat will jump in there and get a surprise bath.
Toxick
Splat
Kerad said:
Actually, being that I'm not a complete buffoon, I did consider that.
I decided to take my chances.
Odds of the house burning down: Slim.
Odds of the house burning down with a child locked inside alone: 0.0%
Odds of children slipping out at 5:30 while mommy and daddy are still sleeping: 99.999%
'Sides it's a moot point now. All my kids are all old enough to know better now. So we have deadbolts with knobs inside these days.
But should a day ever come when there's a 4th Toxlet, when he learns to walk and apply digital manipulation to household gadgets, the double-key deadbolts are coming out of storage again.
SoMDGirl42
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PITTSBURGH — A woman was charged in the death of her stepsister and another toddler after they drowned as she slept off a night of drinking, police said.
Brittany N. Steward, 19, was arrested Tuesday on charges including involuntary manslaughter. A preliminary hearing was tentatively scheduled for Monday.
"OK im finally done drinking and im rocked lol," she text-messaged a friend, using shorthand for "laughing out loud." The message was sent between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. last Wednesday, police said. Hours later, the children were dead.
Steward returned home from a party between 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. to baby-sit her 20-month-old stepsister Jenna Walker and a family friend, 2-year-old Maggie Kovski, police said.
She awoke later in the morning to find the garage door open, police said. Steward found the girls' bodies floating in a pond about 150 yards from the house. She tried performing CPR and called 911, police said.
A man who answered the phone at Steward's home in Waterford, just south of Erie in northwest Pennsylvania, declined to comment.
Steward probably had five or six beers, according to a friend who left the party at about 1:40 a.m. and received Steward's text message.
Authorities would not say whether Steward's blood-alcohol level had been tested.
Steward was charged with two counts each of involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child and recklessly endangering another person. She was being held in the Erie County jail on $50,000 bond.
It was not immediately clear if she had an attorney.
A relative of Maggie's said the Kovski family was not commenting.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,278474,00.html
At first I thought this was a horrible tragic accident. I know I've napped while the kids nap, most parents do at some point, but to find out this girl was drunk when it happened totally pisses me off. I hope she has nightmares about finding them floating in the pond everyday of her life.
PITTSBURGH — A woman was charged in the death of her stepsister and another toddler after they drowned as she slept off a night of drinking, police said.
Brittany N. Steward, 19, was arrested Tuesday on charges including involuntary manslaughter. A preliminary hearing was tentatively scheduled for Monday.
"OK im finally done drinking and im rocked lol," she text-messaged a friend, using shorthand for "laughing out loud." The message was sent between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. last Wednesday, police said. Hours later, the children were dead.
Steward returned home from a party between 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. to baby-sit her 20-month-old stepsister Jenna Walker and a family friend, 2-year-old Maggie Kovski, police said.
She awoke later in the morning to find the garage door open, police said. Steward found the girls' bodies floating in a pond about 150 yards from the house. She tried performing CPR and called 911, police said.
A man who answered the phone at Steward's home in Waterford, just south of Erie in northwest Pennsylvania, declined to comment.
Steward probably had five or six beers, according to a friend who left the party at about 1:40 a.m. and received Steward's text message.
Authorities would not say whether Steward's blood-alcohol level had been tested.
Steward was charged with two counts each of involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child and recklessly endangering another person. She was being held in the Erie County jail on $50,000 bond.
It was not immediately clear if she had an attorney.
A relative of Maggie's said the Kovski family was not commenting.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,278474,00.html
At first I thought this was a horrible tragic accident. I know I've napped while the kids nap, most parents do at some point, but to find out this girl was drunk when it happened totally pisses me off. I hope she has nightmares about finding them floating in the pond everyday of her life.