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The babysitter who was charged with child endangerment, a misdemeanor, for letting an eleven-month-old baby drown in a seven gallon bucket of water was in court yesterday. The infant's parents made it clear that they would like to see charges upped to negligent homicide after prosecutors claimed that 28-year-old sitter Kristal Khan was passed out on cold medicine during the incident. Khan was watching the victim, James Farrior III, along with her own two children out of the Richmond Hills house she used as an unlicensed day care center (none was required); the baby's mother, Chrisann Josiah, had found Khan through a craigslist ad. Josiah says that when Khan called her to say that Farrior had been taken away in an ambulance, the babysitter was "real calm." Josiah said to the News, "I was planning his birthday and now I'm planning his funeral." Yesterday in court, relatives of Farrior's screamed at Khan, leading the judge to have one of them removed. The Queens DA said charges may be upgraded once an autopsy is complete.
Sitter Passed Out On Cough Syrup When Baby Fell In Bucket
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Sippin' on some syzzurp; sip-sippin'-on-some-sip; sippin' on some syzzurp.
beat me to the punch!!
sad story though.
This is a horrid story, and I truly feel for the parents.
But back to the grammer, when I read the title, I thought the sitter was passing out cough syrup to the kids, not "passed out on cough syrup."
Sorry, my mistake—I missed the "on" when I was revising the headline.
grammar, natch.
The writing is horrid as well. Maybe in Twitterville people communicate with run on sentences. The first line had me reaching for the Gas X...
tragic accident, poor baby.
Why in the world was there a seven gallon bucket? With water?
I'd also like to know the answer to that question. Was she planning to clean the floor?
Apparently one of her initial claims was that she got up to get a mop...but later she admitted to sleeping after taking some cough syrup.
and how did the baby climb into the 7 gallon bucket without tipping it over? Either bad luck or foul play.
A gallon of water weighs around 8 pounds. A year-old baby's weight between the 5th and 95th percentiles are between 17.25 and 24.75 pounds. So if the bucket had five gallons of water in it, it would have been quite a bit heavier than the baby.
pwnd, thanks Jen
Moral of the story: Never trust your child to an unlicensed individual who decides to get into the childcare business simply by putting up some stickers in her window that say "Child Day Care."
1 gallon of water weighs about 8 pounds so its over 55 pounds but how did he climb into the bucket then? drowning is such a horrible death. R.I.P baby
I would imagine that even though it was a 7-gallon bucket, it was not filled completely with 7 gallons of water, probably only 1-2 gallons to do the mopping. When you have a baby, the hospital constantly warns you that babies can drown in less than an inch of water. He probably crawled over to it and tipped himself into the bucket, unable to get himself out.
Does that answer all of your questions about liquid mass, weight, leverage and density? Perhaps a physics textbook would help.
Negligent homicide, I called it. I could be a frickin' lawyer.
Negligent homicide, I called it. I could be a frickin' lawyer.
I ,too, was thinking along the lines of reckless homicide when the first details hit the news. And the parent leaving their child with a stranger from craigslist? Unreal.
Unbelievably sad. Khan probably babysat for the fringe benefit of raiding medicine chests. Parents, lock up the candy before you turn your house over to the babysitter.
It sounds like the "daycare center" was at the sitter's house, not the home of the family
Poor baby. He was adorable. How very sad. That sitter should rot in jail forever.
What a terrible tragedy. What kind of woman "passes out" on cough syrup and leaves her own children also without any supervision?! I hope someone took her kids away before one of them have an "accident" also.