Father falls asleep in Airbnb hot tub with toddler daughter in his arms, wakes up to find that she drowned: Cops

A Washington, D.C., man is in a Florida jail after his toddler daughter drowned in his arms in a hot tub while they were on vacation and staying at an Airbnb, cops say.

Deputies with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office responded just after 3:30 a.m. Saturday to a home off Nice Court in Kissimmee for a report of an unresponsive child who apparently drowned. Paramedics rushed the 20-month-old girl to a hospital, where she died about an hour later.

According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, detectives interviewed the 33-year-old father, Reynard Tyrone Hough, who admitted he had been drinking and ingested “two different types of unknown narcotics” during the night. Sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., Hough told detectives in a post-Miranda interview, he entered the master bedroom where he saw the girl’s mother and an infant asleep…

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