Five-month-old infant drowns in bathtub after father leaves him and goes off to play video game
23-year-old Cordarius Cotton was arrested by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and charged with reckless manslaughter after his son drowned in the bathtub
A father has been arrested after he left his five-month-old son in the bathtub to play video games and promptly forgot about him resulting in the infant's death due to drowning. 23-year-old Cordarius Cotton was apprehended by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and has been charged with reckless manslaughter over the incident.
According to a release by the sheriff's office, Cotton told detectives that he turned the water on, placed the child in the bathtub, and then forgot about him. When he returned to the bathtub an hour later, he found his son unresponsive. A dispatcher gave Cotton CPR instructions over the phone while the paramedics rushed to the residence.