{"id":21004,"date":"2013-05-02T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21004"},"modified":"2013-05-02T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:07:53","slug":"mother-charged-in-death-of-infant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21004","title":{"rendered":"Mother Charged In Death Of Infant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office reports that on April 28<sup>th<\/sup> at 4:15 p. m., <strong>Sierra McMillan<\/strong>, 22, put her 7-month-old infant, <strong>Jewond Elder, Jr.,<\/strong> inside a bath tub and started the water for a bath. <strong>McMillan<\/strong> left the infant in the tub with the water running to answer the door to a cable salesman, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p>While inside the apartment, deputies said the salesman could hear the water running and a child crying. He told deputies after a few minutes, the infant stopped crying.<\/p>\n<p>The salesman told deputies that after 15 to 20 minutes, <strong>McMillan<\/strong> went into the bathroom and turned off the water. When she returned, he noticed her arms and the front of her shirt was wet, deputies said. The salesman stayed in the apartment a few more minutes until <strong>McMillan<\/strong> asked him to return another time.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the apartment, deputies said the salesman saw deputies and emergency personnel arriving to the apartment. He also saw EMS personnel leaving the scene with a baby and decided to tell deputies what he had observed.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy of infant was done, and the manner of death was listed as accidental, and the cause of death was listed as drowning of an unattended child. The infant died of drowning caused by being left alone in the tub while the water was running, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies reported that <strong>McMillan<\/strong> told them she was giving the baby a bath, knelt down to get the baby soap from under the sink, and passed out. She said she woke up and found the baby face down in the tub with the water level halfway to the top, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>On April 29<sup>th<\/sup>, <strong>McMillan <\/strong>was arrested and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child. She is being held without bond.<\/p>\n<p>Family members gathered in support of <strong>McMillan<\/strong>, saying she is a loving mother, and this was a tragic accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office reports that on April 28th at 4:15 p. m., Sierra McMillan, 22, put her 7-month-old infant, Jewond Elder, Jr., inside a bath tub and started the water for a bath. McMillan left the infant in the tub with the water running to answer the door to a cable salesman, deputies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}