sloane7777
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Can anyone find the arrest warrant? I really think there is more than a" changing story"
to this
to this
trying to give her the benefit of the doubt
my question is: if the kids and you cannot swim, what is the point of going into a swimming pool?
trying to give her the benefit of the doubt
my question is: if the kids and you cannot swim, what is the point of going into a swimming pool?
Everyone likes to play and splash in the pool, especially when it's hot. But I think not fully appreciating the danger and not understanding water safety is why these kids are dead. My husband almost drowned in a similar situation and IMO there is no "good enough" when it comes to swimming, but some people are more lax.
If none of them, including the mom, could swim why the heck did they go to the pool, and why did she let them in the water? My children can all swim, I can swim. I still watch them, like a hawk. She might as well have lead them to a 6 lane motorway and let them run around on it!
It's so fishy and sounds ridden with lies. If all your 3 kids could not swim well or at all, why would you have them in the deep end. Makes no sense to me, although this scenario could happen. I don't know my gut is not buying it."At the time, police said a witness had described how Allen was talking on her cell phone within arm's reach of the children as they drowned, but did nothing.
Allen was arrested the following month for causing harm to a child, and her two remaining children were taken into protective custody.
However, Allen has now hit back, saying she was in the water with the children that day, playing with her three-year-old son at the shallow end, while his siblings played at the deep end."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...on-save-FOURTH-child-dying.html#ixzz3iaZiVtRx
So she is holding on to her 3 yr old in the shallow end, with her back turned to the deep end, where her 9, 10 and 11 yr old were playing. And all 3 of them went under and she could not get to them because the 3 yr old wouldn't stay out of the water long enough for her to save the others?
I don't think the older kids really did know how to swim if all three of them silently went underneath with no warning. They needed closer supervision. JMO
Two other witnesses, a couple, said the children were nowhere to be seen and that Allen was doing nothing when they arrived at the pool.
"When they arrived, they said that they had seen Patricia sitting at the edge of the pool looking out over the deep end," Officer James McLellan of the Irving Police Department says. "There were no bubbles, no commotion when they walked up."
But then the mom panicked and approached the couple, asking them for help with her children. "The male called 911," McLellan says. "At first he was confused and didn't seem to be taking her too seriously, but midway through the call, one of the boys was pulled from the pool unconscious." That's when the call took on an entirely different tone.
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/loca...-victims-mom-they-can-swim-can-swim/31440727/Attorney Howard Rosenstein took Allen's case for free, and hired a private investigator to pore over phone records and to interview people who know the family.
"I have the proof that she was never on her phone and never inattentive... I have that evidence," Rosenstein said.
He said if there is fault in this tragedy, it lies with apartment management for opening an unsafe pool. The complex had been cited in previous years for the same issue.
"In our society, we're searching for instant justice in a hard case," the lawyer said. "Every time there's a child death, we want immediate justice."
Attorney Howard Rosenstein took Allen's case for free, and hired a private investigator to pore over phone records and to interview people who know the family.
"I have the proof that she was never on her phone and never inattentive... I have that evidence," Rosenstein said.
Wow. So not only is she avoiding jail time, if she successfully completes her probationary period, she will have the conviction vacated.![]()
Mother whose 3 children drowned in Irving apartment pool accepts plea deal
More than four years after three of Patricia Allen's children drowned in an Irving apartment complex pool, she has reached a plea deal that will...www.dallasnews.com
Justice delayed . . . justice denied, IMO.