Father charged with neglect after baby drowns
Posted July 2nd, 2008 by minortopics | via wvgazette.comA man is being charged with child neglect after he allegedly left his 5-month-old son in the bathtub alone and the baby drowned.
When police arrived at the home, paramedics had already taken the 5-month-old baby and were in route to Charleston Area Medical Center’s Women and Children’s Hospital.
The child’s father, Vereen Edward Taylor, 36, said he left his son, Zachari Taylor, in the bathtub and came back later to find him floating in the water, James said.
Taylor told police he had occasionally put the infant in the tub with the shower running and the drain open to pacify him as he took care of personal matters, James said.
Uh, hasn’t this guy ever heard of a playpen?!