Baby Drowns While Mom Online, Police Say

LAKEVILLE, Minn. -- A Lakeville mother has been charged with two counts of manslaughter in the drowning death of her 11-month-old daughter.

Lakeville police said Katherine Renae Bodem, 38, was shopping for shoes online when her daughter, Cecelia Katherine, drowned in the bathtub, WISC-TV in Madison reported.

In a criminal complaint filed in Dakota County, a Lakeville investigator said that several officers arrived at Bodem's home on Aug. 25 to find two women in front of the house administering CPR to a baby.

Investigators said Bodem told police that she put the girl and her 2-year-old son in the bathtub on the main floor of the house while she went downstairs for a few minutes where her other two children were playing.
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:cry: :cry: :cry:


lost

but charging her with manslaughter? That's nuts. Criminal neglect is the proper charge.