TAMPA - A judge is trying to decide whether he will overturn a jury verdict that determined a 21-year-old woman is guilty of child neglect in the drowning of her 9-month-old son. ...more

June 27, 2008

A young mother whose 9-month-old son drowned in a running bathtub while she was having a conversation in the next room is not guilty of aggravated manslaughter of a child but is guilty of child neglect, a jury determined Tuesday. ...more

May 21, 2008

TAMPA - A young mother whose 9-month-old son drowned in a running bathtub while she was having a conversation in the next room is not guilty of aggravated manslaughter of a child but is guilty of child neglect, a jury determined today. ...more

May 20, 2008

While her aunt sat on the witness stand Monday, describing for jurors the day Katrina Lynn Brooks found her 9-month-old son floating in a bathtub, Brooks sat at a defense table with her lawyers, trying to stifle her tears. ...more

May 20, 2008

TAMPA - While her aunt sat on the witness stand today, describing for jurors the day Katrina Lynn Brooks found her 9-month-old son floating in a bathtub, Brooks sat at a defense table with her lawyers, trying to stifle her tears. ...more

May 19, 2008

TAMPA -- An Air Force medic is accused of striking his 15-month-old son's head on the edge of a bathtub, records show. ...more

February 22, 2008

Victoria Rupple's case may be the rare one in which the justice system - not the defendant - receives a second chance to get it right. ...more

February 8, 2008

With sirens wailing and a tornado approaching, 19-year-old Claire Elmblad of Wesley Chapel began praying out loud. Her fellow Union University dormitory roommates, all hunkered down in a bathtub and surrounded by blackness, did the same. ...more

February 8, 2008

TAMPA - With sirens wailing and a tornado approaching, 19-year-old Claire Elmblad of Wesley Chapel began praying out loud. Her fellow Union University dormitory roommates, all hunkered down in the cramped bathtub and surrounded by blackness, did the same. ...more

February 7, 2008

Shane Rupple thinks the justice system has failed his daughter. Just five months ago, 16-year-old Victoria Rupple pleaded guilty to trying to drown her younger brother in the bathtub during a game of "cops and robbers." She was sentenced to a minimum of nine months in a residential treatment program and five years of probation. ...more

January 16, 2008