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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    9 months ago

    Initially claiming she left her baby sitting in a partially filled bathtub for five minutes while she went to the adjacent laundry room

    This isn’t exactly a good excuse either.

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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

        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.

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          9 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