2 Toddlers Drown as Babysitter Sleeps

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2 Toddlers Drown in Northwestern Pennsylvania Pond as Babysitter Sleeps

Thursday, May 31, 2007

WATERFORD, Pennsylvania — Two toddlers wandered away from their home in northwestern Pennsylvania while their baby sitter slept and accidentally drowned in a nearby pond.

The baby sitter told authorities she put the girls down for a nap Wednesday morning and that she also took a nap. When she woke up, 20-month-old Jenna Walker and 2-year-old Maggie Kovski were missing from the house, the baby sitter said.

She found their bodies floating in a small, man-made fishing pond about 100 yards (90 meters) away from the home and frantically tried to help them.....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276733,00.html

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Cops: Sitter Was Drinking Night Before Toddlers Drowned as She Slept
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

PITTSBURGH — A woman was charged in the death of her stepsister and another toddler after they drowned as she slept off a night of drinking, police said.

Brittany N. Steward, 19, was arrested Tuesday on charges including involuntary manslaughter. A preliminary hearing was tentatively scheduled for Monday.

"OK im finally done drinking and im rocked lol," she text-messaged a friend, using shorthand for "laughing out loud." The message was sent between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. last Wednesday, police said. Hours later, the children were dead.

Steward returned home from a party between 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. to baby-sit her 20-month-old stepsister Jenna Walker and a family friend, 2-year-old Maggie Kovski, police said.....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,278474,00.html