Baby brain dead after being left in tub while dad played video games, US cops say


The father filled the water in the bathtub up to the child’s chest and went into the master bedroom where he played video games on his PlayStation, police said. — Photo by Sora Khan on Unsplash

A baby is now brain dead after his father played video games while he was alone in a bathtub, authorities in Arizona said.

The 37-year-old man put his seven-month-old son in a tub April 4 after noticing the child was “sweaty”, Phoenix police said in a probable cause statement.

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