An Ohio mother has been indicted in connection to the tragic death of her 3-year-old son who died earlier this month after being scalded by hot water.
Officers and first responders arrived at Laronda Mims’ home at around 8 a.m. on Jan. 6 after she called reporting that her 3-year-old son Emmanuel had pulled a pot full of hot water and got burned.
“The baby had a little mask on his face…Just seeing him, I was just crying, seeing him wrapped up in that blanket like that,” a neighbor recalled.
The toddler was rushed to Nationwide Children’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 8:18 a.m.
Investigators determined the circumstances surrounding the boy’s death as suspicious and launched a probe.
On Jan. 28, the 45-year-old mother was indicted on two charges of endangering a child and one charge of involuntary manslaughter.
The neighbor said police had responded to Mims’ apartment “numerous times” before the toddler’s death.
