06-21-2011, 01:04 PM
(06-21-2011, 12:32 PM)BlueTiki Wrote: Gee . . . what are the odds that two different mothers are in the same jail at the same time with the death of a child, dying "accidently" in identical manner and with the same member of the family finding the dead child!
Happens every day.
sad, happened on Christmas day.
December 26, 2007
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla -- Christmas turned tragic for a family in Orange County Tuesday afternoon when a 15-month-old boy drowned in a backyard swimming pool.
A detective with the Orange County Sheriff's Office identified the child as Isaiah Whalen. Family members told deputies that they were observing Christmas at a home on Heaton Court in east Orange County when they noticed that Isaiah was missing.
The boy's mother and other relatives immediately launched a search around the home and the neighborhood. While searching around the pool area, the boy's grandfather spotted him face down in a murky, above ground pool in the rear of the house.
The grandfather jumped in the pool and administered CPR, which was continued by an Orange County Sheriff's deputy who arrived on the scene.
Fire rescue units transported the boy to Florida Hospital East where he died a couple of hours later.
An investigation into the incident will be conducted by the sheriff's office as well at the Department of Children and Families.
defense attorney Jose Baez said that the state handed him the new discovery Tuesday morning. Baez claimed it was a violation of Judge Belvin Perry's discovery order.
Assistant state attorney Linda Drane Burdick explained a citizen called the Orange County Sheriff's Office a week ago, saying Casey Anthony possibly had contact with another inmate in the Orange County Jail named April Whalen.
According to prosecutors, Whalen had a son who drowned in a swimming pool. The boy's grandfather found him and called 911 immediately.
Baez told a similar story in his opening statement, saying 2-year-old Caylee Anthony drowned in her grandparents' swimming pool on June 16, 2008.
Corrections officials confirmed Whalen was housed in the same area of the Orange County Jail as Casey Anthony for five days in 2009. The state said it could not confirm whether Whalen ever had contact with Casey.
Whalen has been booked into the Orange County Jail 10 times between 2000 and 2009. She was arrested on four different occasions for petit theft, four times for violating probation, and twice for driving with a suspended license, among other charges, including drug possession.
April Whalen . frequent flier at jail.