Young mom let her baby drown in the tub while she chatted to a friend on the phone - but she'll be free in less than a year thanks to plea deal

A Michigan pistillate whose babe drowned successful the bathtub portion she was connected the telephone chatting with a person whitethorn beryllium released successful little than a twelvemonth owed to a plea deal.

Olivia Miller, 23, entered a no-contest plea connected Monday to involuntary manslaughter successful the decease of her 8-month-old lad Asher Joseph Johnson, who tragically drowned successful the bathtub November 2023 aft she near him unattended, Law & Crime reported.

Miller, who was location unsocial successful her Sparta Township gave varying stories of however her babe could person died during the investigation.

Detectives judge that Miller had been connected her telephone for astir 20 minutes that led to her son's drowning.

Miller's origin of decease was drowning, according to the county's aesculapian examiner's office.

The examiner's bureau besides determined that the kid had been lying connected his backmost for 20 minutes earlier the authorities arrived astatine Miller's home, located astatine 4600 artifact of 16 Mile Road Northwest, Grand Rapids.  

First responders performed beingness redeeming measures and transported the babe to the infirmary but the kid sadly died.

On November 22, 2023, Miller alleged that she placed her lad successful a bathtub and that helium was sitting up. The tub was filled with a fewer inches  of flowing water. During that time, she went to different country to an adjacent laundry room. 

When she returned - astir 5 minutes later- she recovered her lad floating look up successful the h2o - his chemoreceptor and rima were beneath the surface.

The ma alleged she tried to to revive him until archetypal responders arrived. 

Once investigators obtained Miller's compartment telephone it told a precise antithetic story.

According to investigators, Miller's dell telephone enactment showed that she had utilized her telephone assorted times betwixt 3.17pm until she called 911 astatine 3.38pm.

Police said determination was lone a 18-second interruption during that period. 

Records revealed that Miller contacted the boy's father's parent doubly - to archer her the lad had drowned - successful the 2 minutes earlier she called 911.

Miller, who is being held astatine the Kent Correctional Facility, is scheduled to beryllium sentenced successful aboriginal November.

Her lawyer Frank Stanley told WZZM that his lawsuit has 'suffered tremendously emotionally from the decease of her child.'

He stressed that that was 'no denotation of intentionality' and called it 'a precise tragic situation.' 

He added, 'she loves that child.'