Bradenton police detail tragic pool party drowning that led to a mother’s arrest: ‘No one was watching’

The Brief

  • Rosette Pierrecius, 32, was arrested after her 4-year-old daughter was found at the bottom of a pool during an after-hours party Saturday night in Bradenton.
  • Surveillance video from the Kendall Ridge Apartment complex revealed the child was underwater for an extended period before anyone noticed her.
  • Bradenton police charged the mother with child neglect causing great bodily harm just hours before Mother’s Day after witnesses’ stories failed to match the footage.

BRADENTON, Fla. A 32-year-old woman is in jail after her 4-year-old daughter drowned during an after-hours pool party at a Bradenton apartment complex Saturday night.

Bradenton pool party investigation

What we know:

According to police, Rosette Pierrecius and her daughter were attending a party at the Kendall Ridge Apartment complex pool, even though they did not live there.

The Bradenton Police Department received a call at 9:10 p.m. Saturday and arrived three minutes later to find the child had been pulled from the water.

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