Nim, Jenks (11/20/2009 8:38:45 AM)

I thought the whole explanation sounded suspicious. Very sad.

Are you kidding me, (11/20/2009 8:43:51 AM)

Poor baby, may he rest in the hands of the lord. But arresting his mother for manslaughter is ridiculous!

HONES, T-Town (11/20/2009 8:46:15 AM)

I think if the mom would have come clean and explained that she left the child for a moment, these charges may not have been filed. It's when you start making thing up you get into trouble. This is very sad indeed.

purple rain, (11/20/2009 8:58:21 AM)

she left a 9 month old baby alone (even for a minute it a minute too long) in the bath tub?? A lesson horribly now learned. Do people just not have any common sense anymore??

paprika, teahas (11/20/2009 9:01:33 AM)

Sounds kinda fishy. RIP.

PapaBear4172, Muskogee (11/20/2009 9:03:42 AM)

Sad story. :(

chaosncunfuzn, Tulsa (11/20/2009 9:04:12 AM)

When you have a child, you must accept certain responsibilities that come with that child. Keeping the child safe is one of those. Leaving an infant unattended, especially in a bath tub, is flat out negligent. It's unfortunate that the lesson this mother learned was at the cost of her baby's life. It is sad, but I can see where legally, the manslaughter charge would apply.

Ryanoceros, Tulsa (11/20/2009 9:27:46 AM)

For conversation's sake, how would you guys compare this to when people leave their children in a hot car...either by accident, incompetence, or on purpose.

TurtlesBabyDaddy, Tulsa (11/20/2009 9:30:34 AM)

This is ridiculous. Being stupid enough to leave your baby in the bathtub makes you a bad mother, not a murderer. This is pure darwinism. She might be unfit as a mother. Maybe she should lose custody of the other child. But it's ridiculous that she get charged for manslaughter for the death of her own child. This wastes tax dollars, increases the delays in our court system, adds to the overcrowding in our prisons, and doesn't benefit anyone. If she didn't learn her lesson by the death of her child, going to prison isn't going to do a better job of reforming her.

nuffsaid, Tulsa (11/20/2009 9:34:03 AM)

You can't be serious! Sure she did a bonehead thing by leaving the baby alone but murder charges?

Few Clothes, America (11/20/2009 9:41:38 AM)

Her moment could have been minutes while she gabbed on the cell phone, watched Oprah or a soap opera. I'm not accepting her definition of a moment.

RIP little baby.

forkandknife, Tulsa (11/20/2009 9:41:55 AM)

Very sad story. That is all I will say.

Paperjunkie#1, (11/20/2009 9:45:27 AM)

There was another child in the tub as well. My guess is that she left them to play alone in the tub while she did her own thing. Probably outside smoking a cigarette or something.

hippienana, Tulsa (11/20/2009 9:45:33 AM)

It takes longer than a moment to drown.

purple rain, (11/20/2009 9:46:32 AM)

maybe don't lock the girl up, but please, get her some supervision so that this (or something like this) doesn't happen to her other child. maybe family members could step up and monitor the situation because it seems like she needs some guidance.

DBJohn, Tulsa (11/20/2009 9:49:10 AM)

She is responsible for the loss of a life, whether it's her own child or not. It is a crime she needs to be held accountable.

SEStone, TULSA (11/20/2009 9:49:37 AM)

"Multiple organ failure due to lack of oxygen" is not exactly the same thing as drowning, and suggests that she may have caused him to stop breathing in another manner, and put him in the bathtub after he was dead, to call it an accident. Regardless, if you leave a nine month old in a bathtub alone for one minute and the baby dies, you should be charged with manslaughter. If nothing else, you should be charged for extreme neglect, and stupidity on top of that.

T.B'Ville, Bruins (11/20/2009 9:51:53 AM)

The lack of oxygen sounds like she tried to suffocate the baby?

DBJohn, Tulsa (11/20/2009 9:52:15 AM)

If stupidity was a crime, just think of the overcrowding of our jails would be like? I do agree she needs to be held criminally liable for this.

Samantha J., (11/20/2009 10:02:36 AM)

Ryanoceros,that was a great comment.

Mar, Tulsa (11/20/2009 10:06:10 AM)

Purple rain, to answer your question, no a lot of people do not have common sense anymore. You do not leave young children in the bathtub/bathroom alone period.

When my 3 sons were that age I was still giving them their bath in the kitchen sink or their baby bath tub. 9 months is too young to put a child in a bathtub.

There must be some other circumstances as to why homicide charges will be filed. If this young mother gets to keep her freedom, I hope she learned her lesson, but what a terrible way to have learned it.

apaine, Claremore (11/20/2009 10:08:03 AM)

Hmmmm, autopsy should show fluid in the lungs if someone drowns....of course you would have multiple organ failure if a person was not receiving oxygen fora long enough period of time. Usually if a person dies from water in the lungs the ME will state drowning as cause of death...seems to me there is some missing information here.

nunyerbisness, Tulsa (11/20/2009 10:08:12 AM)

Losing a child by your own hand is punishment in itself. Thats pretty much a life sentence.

Well, maybe some short jail time, parenting classes while serving out the rest of her time on probation.

Hope86, tulsa (11/20/2009 10:09:39 AM)

I think she shoould be held criminally liable for her baby's death.Even though she said she just left him in the tub just for a "moment" thats all it took for this little boy to drown.. Stupid stupid woman..

flocked, (11/20/2009 10:12:13 AM)

There should be math involved to pro-create. If this person has another child why is she being left responsible with it after she neglected to supervise her deceased child in a tub full of water?