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A tragic incident unfolded in Sparta Township, Michigan, as 23-year-old Olivia Miller faced arrest on Thursday in connection with the drowning of her eight-month-old son, Asher Johnson, back in November 2023.

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[–] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

And she gave that excuse as if babies don't fling themselves all over the place, where looking away for one second could mean they fall off a table or slip underwater.

What absolutely awful negligence.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a parent myself, there's a lot of other things this could have been besides willful negligence. Exhaustion, stress, post partum disorder. She has in all likelihood already been punished.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

I can't even imagine how fucked up of a mental state that would leave her in. She's going to regret this and hold herself responsible for this for the rest of her life. It's tragic