A Douglas County jury convicted a 25-year-old mother of negligent child abuse about one year after her 10-month-old son drowned in a bathtub.
Ravionne Pullum, 25, will be sentenced on March 4, 2025, by Douglas County District Court Judge Tressa Alioth. Pullum could face up to 20 years in prison after being convicted on Thursday.
According to an affidavit filed by an Omaha police officer, officers went to a home near 118th Street and Military Road on Dec. 15, 2023, for a call of an unresponsive child and CPR being administered.
The boy was taken to Children's Nebraska, where he was pronounced dead.
Staff members told the officer who filed the affidavit the boy was reportedly left unattended inside the tub for about 10 minutes.
The incident happened shortly after 11 p.m. on Dec. 15, 2023. After having worked a full day, Pullum went to a friend's house, where she told the officer she drank two or three shots of tequila. After she got home, the affidavit said, she decided to give the boy a bath. She filled the tub up to the boy's chest. Then, Pullum told the officer, she left to get a towel from her bedroom. But she kept the bathtub faucet running because her son liked playing with the water.
Pullum later told the officer she got distracted by some stuff "that needed to be packed" in advance of a trip.
When Pullum returned to the bathroom, according to the affidavit, she found the boy in the water facing the ceiling. Pullum told the officer she started to perform CPR on her son. Pullum's mother called 911.
Pullum's blood alcohol content was measured at 0.07 in a sobriety test taken about seven hours after she returned home from her friend's house.
The jury convicted Pullum after a three-day trial that began on Monday.
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