Mom charged after North Carolina toddler drowns
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The mother of a toddler who wandered off and drowned in a small pond in North Carolina is in jail on charges of involuntary manslaughter and child neglect.
Local news outlets report that 30-year-old Samantha Nacole Bryant of Carthage was arrested Wednesday after she was indicted in the April 14 death.
It was not immediately known if she had an attorney.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Authorities say Bryant's 23-month-old Rylan Ott was reported missing on the afternoon of April 14. Deputies found him unresponsive about two hours later in a small pond.
The child was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.