A mom left her 3-year-old son to drown at a Texas water park while she “spent hours looking at her phone and singing along to music,” authorities say – but her lawyer claims inattentive lifeguards are at fault.
Jessica Weaver, 35, has been accused of being negligent and was arrested in connection with the drowning on August 30 and charged with injury to a child by omission.
Many witnesses claim they saw a mother ignore her son while scrolling on her phone poolside. When the child began to drown, she didn't react for several minutes