Dauphin County Mom Charged After Baby’s Drowning Death In Bathtub

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A 32-year-old Dauphin County woman was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter after her baby drowned in a bathtub in August.

State police also charged Sadie Ressler with recklessly endangering a child, a 2-year-old sibling who was also in the tub the night of the drowning, August 14.

A neighbor called 911 after Ressler left her home screaming for help.

Ressler told police she put her children in the bathtub with a few inches of water, including her 10-month-old “underdeveloped” baby who was “not capable of self-rescue while in water,” police wrote in court documents.


Ressler initially said she was seated on the bathroom floor scrolling on her cell phone and that she could not see into the back of the tub while on the floor.

Once she looked into the tub, she saw the baby floating face-down

When police asked what happened, Ressler told them “I don’t even know.” Ressler denied using any alcohol or drugs that night.

Ressler also told police she didn’t remember taking her other child out of the tub and did not remember what happened after taking her baby out of the tub, according to court records.

The coroner ruled the death from freshwater drowning and the cause as accidental. The baby had froth in her lungs indicating she was alive before she fell into the water.

Police also noted Ressler cell phone search history from the Harrisburg hospital included queries of “Can you tell how much alcohol I drank from a blood test,” and “How long does alcohol stay in blood,” indicating she had lied to investigators about her alcohol intake that night.

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I don't know why they had to say that the 10mo was not capable of self rescue. No 10mo old is capable of self rescue in a bathtub of water and by the way no one can float in a few inches of water. If there was enough water to float in there's was way the hell too much water in the tub.

I know that I can start scrolling on my phone and all of a sudden I've lost an hour, she probably did too. This is the main reason I don't sit and scroll very often, I got better things to do.