The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Ferry Pass father Thursday after the man’s 1-year-old child died alone in a full bath.
Marc Basulto was arrested on a charge of aggravated manslaughter involving the death of a child after deputies responded to the Shoal Creek Drive home and found the 1-year-old dead.
“An investigation revealed that Marc Basulto was alone in his home with his two children when he placed his one-year-old in a bathtub with running water,” an ECSO release says. “Basulto then took medication and went to sleep in another room.”
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ECSO says Basulto woke up to one of his children screaming and found the 1-year-old in the overflowing tub unresponsive.
Emergency responders took the child to a local hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
No further information was released.
This article originally appeared in Pensacola News Journal: Pensacola man Marc Basulto arrested for manslaughter in baby drowning
