PRAIRIEVILLE — A Prairieville woman who operated an in-home daycare was arrested on negligent homicide charges after a toddler drowned in a pool.
On May 18, Ascension Parish deputies responded to a Roy Rogers Road home in Prairieville after the 3-year-old was found unconscious in the pool. The child was quickly airlifted to the hospital, where he later died.
Deputies later learned that 37-year-old Joann Johnson was operating an in-home daycare at the Roy Rogers home. Surveillance footage showed two young children who were in Johnson’s care playing near a swimming pool without safety equipment. The boy then fell into the pool and drowned…