Mom Accused of Playing Game on Facebook While Baby Drowned
January 19th, 2011Via: Reuters:
A Colorado mother who told police her 13-month-old son drowned in the bathtub while she was playing a game on Facebook was charged on Friday with child abuse resulting in death.
Shannon Johnson, 34, was advised of the charge against her via a video hookup from the jail where she is being held on a $100,000 bond, said Jennifer Finch, spokeswoman for the Weld County District Attorney’s Office.
Johnson requested a public defender during the brief hearing and another hearing was set for later in the month, Finch said.
Under questioning by police after the boy died at a Denver-area hospital last September, Johnson admitted she placed the baby in the bathtub and went into another room to play the Facebook game “Cafe World.”
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It is amazing how fb has infiltrated the web. Some local news sites require you to login to fb just to comment on a story. Also surprising is when I visit certain sites it will attempt to connect with fb through a script or something. The “like” buttons are everywhere…