Sentenced: Brittany Garrison Left Her 1YO Son Alone In Pool With Flotation Device...What Could Go Wrong

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Detectives interviewed the child’s mother, Brittany Garrison, 28, and learned Garrison had taken her 1-year-old son and a sibling outside to swim in an above-ground pool. Garrison left the child alone in a flotation device inside the pool and went inside the residence with the sibling, according to a police report. A short time later, the child was found unresponsive outside of the flotation device in the pool. Police determined the child was not wearing any additional flotation device or life jacket.

Police have filed charges against Garrison including involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of children and recklessly endangering another person.

Etna mother charged in 1-year-old son’s drowning death

Detectives interviewed the child’s mother and learned she had taken the child and a sibling outside to swim in an above-ground pool, according to a police report.

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Brittany Garrison, 29, pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter, court records show. Prosecutors dropped charges of endangering the welfare of a child and recklessly endangering another person.

Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Kevin G. Sasinoski sentenced Garrison to five years of probation.

Garrison took her son, Leo, and a sibling to swim in an aboveground pool in her backyard on Sycamore Street around 3 p.m. on July 27, 2023, according to Allegheny County Police.

Police said Garrison put her son in the pool in a red-and-yellow, two-seat “float” without a life jacket. Then, police said, she left him unattended and went inside with the sibling.

A short time later, Leo was found in the pool, unresponsive, and off the float, according to police. First responders rushed Leo to the hospital, where he died 14 days later.

Police arrested Garrison on March 21. She was released from jail that day on a nonmonetary bond.

Judge gives Etna mom probation in infant son’s drowning death

A judge on Monday sentenced an Etna woman to probation in the drowning death last year of her 1-year-old son in a backyard pool. Brittany Garrison, 29, pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter, court records show. Prosecutors dropped charges of endangering the welfare of a child...

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