01-18-2011, 05:32 PM
FORT LUPTON, Colo. -- A Front Range mother is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in the death of her 13-month-old son last September.
According to KMGH-TV, Shannon Johnson, 34, admitted to police she was on Facebook playing Cafe World, checking on a friend's status and sharing videos in the living room, while her son was in the bathtub, according to an arrest affidavit obtained Thursday.
Johnson told police her son was playing in the bathtub for about 10 minutes and she checked on him once. Johnson said that about three more minutes went by and she didn't hear her son playing, so she went to check on the baby and saw him sideways with his face in the water, according to the arrest affidavit.
Johnson told police she grabbed the boy out of the water and she heard some gurgling.
An ambulance took the boy to a nearby fire station where he was airlifted to Children's Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 4:30 p.m.
When the detective asked Johnson why she would leave a 13-month-old in the bathtub alone, Johnson said he really wanted to be left alone and he was a very independent baby, according to the arrest affidavit. In the affidavit, Johnson also said she didn't want her son to be known as a "mamma's boy." AT 13 MONTHS YOU IDIOT BITCH??
She told detectives that she knew what it was like to be told no and she didn't want her baby to be told no.
Johnson told police she gave the baby a bath everyday, sometimes twice a day. She said on the day the baby died, the water level may have been a little higher than usual.
Johnson told police her son had a seizure at his grandmother's house a month earlier. She was given anti-seizure medicine to give the boy if he was having a seizure. Johnson said doctors did not diagnose what caused the seizure and there were no other seizures.
The investigation into the boy's death was delayed while investigators waited for the final autopsy report. That report came back Jan. 3. It said the baby died of anoxic brain injury, cardiac arrest and drowning, according to the arrest affidavit.
Johnson was arrested Tuesday.
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According to KMGH-TV, Shannon Johnson, 34, admitted to police she was on Facebook playing Cafe World, checking on a friend's status and sharing videos in the living room, while her son was in the bathtub, according to an arrest affidavit obtained Thursday.
Johnson told police her son was playing in the bathtub for about 10 minutes and she checked on him once. Johnson said that about three more minutes went by and she didn't hear her son playing, so she went to check on the baby and saw him sideways with his face in the water, according to the arrest affidavit.
Johnson told police she grabbed the boy out of the water and she heard some gurgling.
An ambulance took the boy to a nearby fire station where he was airlifted to Children's Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 4:30 p.m.
When the detective asked Johnson why she would leave a 13-month-old in the bathtub alone, Johnson said he really wanted to be left alone and he was a very independent baby, according to the arrest affidavit. In the affidavit, Johnson also said she didn't want her son to be known as a "mamma's boy." AT 13 MONTHS YOU IDIOT BITCH??
She told detectives that she knew what it was like to be told no and she didn't want her baby to be told no.
Johnson told police she gave the baby a bath everyday, sometimes twice a day. She said on the day the baby died, the water level may have been a little higher than usual.
Johnson told police her son had a seizure at his grandmother's house a month earlier. She was given anti-seizure medicine to give the boy if he was having a seizure. Johnson said doctors did not diagnose what caused the seizure and there were no other seizures.
The investigation into the boy's death was delayed while investigators waited for the final autopsy report. That report came back Jan. 3. It said the baby died of anoxic brain injury, cardiac arrest and drowning, according to the arrest affidavit.
Johnson was arrested Tuesday.