KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A 33-year-old Washington, D.C., man is in a Florida jail after his 20-month-old daughter drowned in his arms in a hot tub while on vacation, according to Osceola County deputies.
Deputies responded shortly after 3:30 a.m. Saturday to a home off Nice Court in Kissimmee. Paramedics rushed the toddler to a hospital, but she died about an hour later.
According to the arrest affidavit, the father, Reynard Tyrone Hough, admitted he had been drinking and had ingested “two different types of unknown narcotics” during the night. He told detectives he took his daughter outside to the backyard hot tub, holding her in his arms, and fell asleep for roughly 20 minutes. He woke up when he felt her head drop and realized she was limp.
Hough ran inside to alert the mother but did not initially explain that the girl had been in the hot tub. The mother called 911, and paramedics found the child unresponsive and “foaming at the mouth.”
Authorities noted that Hough could not provide a reasonable explanation for taking a 1-year-old, who could not swim, into a 37-inch-deep hot tub at 3 a.m. while under the influence of alcohol and narcotics.
Hough is charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and child neglect with great bodily harm. He remains in the Osceola County Jail without bond.
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