Mother arrested for 8-year-old’s death in Spokane

SPOKANE, Wash. — An 8-year-old girl with special needs was found unresponsive in a bathtub in Spokane on Sunday, and her mother was arrested for manslaughter and abandoning a dependent person.

Police were called to the home on East Baldwin Avenue by someone who said water was leaking into their apartment from above.

When firefighters and AMR arrived, they broke in through a window and found a child floating an an overflowing bathtub…

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