CONNOR SWEET - 2 Months - Linn (SE of Jefferson City) MO

Police in Linn, Missouri are investigating after a two-month old baby drowns.
University Hospital confirms tonight the victim was Connor Sweet.The
Linn newspaper the "Unterrified Democrat" reports medics were called
to a home on Main Street Tuesday morning and found the infant unconscious
in the bathtub.The baby was revived and taken to Children's Hospital in Columbia
where he later died.The Linn Police Department wouldn't comment to KRCG today, but Chief Richard Bray
told the paper the baby's 28 year old mother Rachel Sweet was arrested on
suspicion of child endangerment.She was later released, charges are pending.

http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=590995

Osage Co. Mother Pleads Guilty in Drowning Death of Her Child




By News Tribune

Thursday, July 7, 2011
Rachel Sweet is charged with endangering the welfare of a child and involuntary manslaughter.

An sentencing advisory report was ordered and sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 2.
Osage County Prosecutor Amanda Grellner will be asking for Sweet to serve a total of ten years in prison, 7 on count I and 3 on
count II to run consecutive.
Sweet's lawyers intend to argue for something less than that.
Grellner charged Sweet on March 17 with involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of the child.
Officials accuse Sweet of placing her 3-month-old son in a bathtub, then leaving him "with no supervision for an extended period of time."
Sheriff Carl Fowler's probable cause statement indicated that, based on interviews with Sweet and her mother, and a brief visit with Sweet 's daughter, 7, he believed Sweet put the baby in the tub "during the late evening hours of March 7th or early morning hours of March 8th," then fell asleep or unconscious "as a result of the ingestion of prescription medication, consumption of alcohol or combination thereof."
The boy was found face down in the water on the morning of March 8.
http://www.newstribune.com/news/2011/jul/07/osage-co-mother-pleads-guilty-drowning-death-her-c/