Three toddlers roaming streets lead Florida police to find dead infant in plastic bin
Deputies arrest two women in connection with infant's drowning
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Your support makes all the difference.Two Florida women have been charged over the death of an infant after allegedly drowning the baby boy and stuffing the body in a plastic bin.
Tanya Galvin, 41, and Ricky Tubbs, 25, were arrested by the Brevard County Sheriff's Office in connection with the death. The dead infant was Ms Tubb's foster child, Scorpio Sharp.
The child's body was found several months before the women were charged.
The sheriff's office first became aware of the situation when a deputy saw a trio of children aged between two and four walking unaccompanied in Cape Canaveral. After questioning the children, the deputy went to their home, where Ms Galvin was asleep.
Ms Galvin told the deputy she hadn't been aware of where the children were, and that she assumed Ms Tubbs had been taking care of them.
One of the children found on the street was "wet and smelled of urine", so the deputy searched the house for diapers to change the child. While the deputy was searching, they discovered the body of an unresponsive infant in a plastic bin.
The deputy performed CPR on the child in an attempt to revive him. In the police report, the deputy said that water was cleared from the child's nose and throat. The deputy rushed the child to a hospital, where it was pronounced dead.
An autopsy by the Brevard County Medical Examiner's Office found the child had died by drowning.
The baby, Scorpio, was placed under the supervision of Ms Tubbs by the state's Department of Children and Families. The night prior to Scorpio's death, Ms Tubbs left the children in the care of her boyfriend.
According to the police report, she returned the following morning so her boyfriend could go to work, but she didn't make it home in time, and her boyfriend left for work, leaving the children alone at the house.
Ms Tubbs' boyfriend called her and told her she needed to go home immediately because the children were alone with Ms Galvin, who was not authorised by the state to care for them.
According to law enforcement, Ms Tubbs has used alcohol and drugs the night prior. By the time she'd returned home, the baby was dead in the container. During the initial search of the house, officers found a nearby bathtub filled with standing water 25 feet from where the drowned baby was found.
A statement released by the police following the investigation of the scene posits that the child drowned in the bathtub and was discarded by the women.
Ms Tubbs was charged with neglect of a child with great bodily harm and is being held in the Volusia County Jail on a $25,000 bond. She will be extradited to Brevard County.
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