A Florida lady has actually been charged with murder after a baby in her care drowned while pinned under a car seat in the tub, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.
It occurred Saturday, June 17, at a home east of Naples, and the lady is implicated of staging a various situation including a dog bowl to conceal the truth the kid was left ignored, authorities said in a press release.
Investigators state 29-year-old Nicole Marie Laber strapped the infant to a car seat and left the kid sitting alone in the tub prior to calling 911 around 7:40 a.m.
“The infant drowned after the booster seat tipped over and trapped the child under a few inches of water,” the constable’s workplace said in a press release. “The child was later pronounced dead at a hospital.”
The infant was an 8-month-old lady and the suspect is her motheraccording to station WBBH-TV.
Laber called the constable’s workplace to report the drowning that early morning, authorities said, however “staged the child’s death to make it appear as if it were an accident.”
“Laber initially told deputies she briefly left the infant inside the house unattended while she went to retrieve her dog and another young child. … When she returned she found the infant slumped over on the floor, face-down, in the dog’s water bowl,” the constable’s workplace said.
“Further investigation by deputies revealed Laber left the infant unattended in a bathtub while strapped to a booster seat.”
Laber was jailed June 23 and deals with a charge of intensified murder of a kid, authorities said.
“This is an absolute tragedy,” said Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said in the news release. “But thanks to the dedication and skill of our detectives we now know what actually happened to this innocent baby and justice can be carried out.”
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