Father charged after toddler found unresponsive in Central Florida hot tub
By Danielle Scruggs
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KISSIMMEE, Florida (WPBF) — An investigation is underway after a 20-month-old girl was found unresponsive in a hot tub Saturday in Kissimmee.
According to our Hearst sister station WESH 2 in Orlando, it happened around 3:30 a.m. at a home off Nice Court.
Deputies with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said the child appeared to have drowned in the hot tub.
Authorities said the home was listed as an Airbnb, and a family from Washington, D.C., was staying there at the time.
Her father, 33-year-old Reynard Tyrone Hough, told detectives he was with his child in the hot tub and fell asleep with her in his arms. He told them she was unresponsive when he woke up.
The toddler was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead just after 4:30 a.m.
After further investigation, detectives determined that Hough was neglectful in the death of his daughter and was arrested for child neglect with great bodily harm.
He was charged the next day with aggravated manslaughter of a child.
He remains in custody at the Osceola County Jail.
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