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GREELEY, Colo. – A northern river blackamoor who was activity a mettlesome on Facebook patch her 13-month-old baby drowned in a flooded tub was sentenced weekday to 10 eld in prison.

Shannon Johnson, 34, of Fort Lupton, cried as District Judge Thomas Quammen told her he didn't conceive she was a intense mortal or that she killed her son on purpose, the journalist Tribune reported. But, he added, that doesn't stingy her action wasn't criminal.

"You mitt this lowercase pupil in a tub so you could entertain yourself on the machine by activity games," Quammen said. "And you mitt that 13-month-old human being, lowercase Joseph, unbelievably for those reasons."

Johnson pleaded blameable in March to negligently causing the death of her child. The calculate carried a sentencing arrange of quaternary to 12 years, but it also mitt open the existence she could obtain accord corrections or probation. Authorities rejected both of those options, locution they didn't want to endeavor down the seriousness of her crime.

According to suite documents, Johnson put her son in the tub for his clean a lowercase after 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 20. She then mitt him unsupervised in a tub flooded of liquid as she went to another room to deal videos, check position updates and endeavor Cafe World on Facebook. Johnson told deputies that carpenter had grown independent and desired to be mitt lonely in the tub.

When she returned to the bathroom, said she institute carpenter sideways and face-down in the tub.

Johnson titled 911 to say carpenter wasn't breathing. Paramedics were healthy to restore the bambino but he was noticeable departed at a Denver hospital.

She was also sentenced to fivesome eld of dominion promise mass her incarceration.

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