Mom Was Drinking Beer And On Her Phone When 4-year-old Daughter Drowned At Florida Pool Party, Police Say

A female has been arrested aft her four-year-old girl drowned during a pool statement successful Florida while she drank brew and talked connected her phone, according to a constabulary report.

Rosette Pierrecius, 32, faces charges of kid neglect causing awesome bodily harm successful relationship pinch nan child’s decease astatine nan Kendall Ridge Apartment analyzable successful Bradenton, constabulary said.

She reportedly told rule enforcement she was not a resident of nan analyzable and was attending an after-hours vicinity statement Saturday nighttime pinch guests that included family members, WWSB reports.

Surveillance video allegedly shows nan kid entering nan excavation without her mother noticing astatine 8:52 p.m. and becoming submerged astir 3 minutes later, according to a constabulary study obtained by The Independent.

Another big saw nan kid underwater and pulled her retired astir 9:04 p.m., meaning nan woman was underwater for astir 9 minutes, nan study states. No 1 was performing CPR erstwhile nan constabulary arrived 3 minutes aft receiving nan 911 call, constabulary said. Officers past started CPR and nan woman was taken to nan hospital, wherever she was later pronounced dead.

Pierrecius was arrested early connected Mother’s Day. She allegedly told investigators that she had near her girl nether nan supervision of 2 older children astatine nan statement while she went to nan bathroom, nan study states.

However, investigators said surveillance video contradicted her relationship and showed she was not supervising nan child, alternatively stepping astir nan excavation platform and utilizing her telephone while nan woman was successful nan water.

The mother told investigators she had drunk six beers and later recorded a humor intoxicant level of 0.124 percent, constabulary said.

“This lawsuit is simply a heartbreaking calamity that has profoundly affected our community. While thing tin return distant from nan nonaccomplishment of a child, we person a work to clasp individuals accountable erstwhile negligence puts guiltless lives astatine risk. And successful this scenario, nan negligence resulted successful nan nonaccomplishment of a child's life,” Bradenton Assistant Chief of Police Brian Thiers told The Independent successful a statement.

Pierrecius is being detained arsenic nan State Attorney’s Office reviews nan lawsuit and determines general charges, Fox 13 reported Tuesday. She is scheduled to beryllium arraigned June 26.