Mom pretended her 2-year-old drowned while bathing him in a plastic storage bin when she actually murdered the boy, put on a twisted act like it was an accident: DA

A California parent is charged with "murdering her toddler" aft she staged the boy's decease to look similar an accidental drowning during a bath, prosecutors say.

Melissa Beisel, 41, of Fresno, went truthful acold arsenic to harm herself with a "sharp object" to marque it look similar she felt atrocious astir not seeing the lad drown oregon being capable to revive him, according to the Placentia constabulary and the Orange County District Attorney's Office.

"The lawsuit was initially investigated arsenic an alleged drowning," the DA's bureau says successful a press release announcing Beisel's murder charge. The Placentia Police Department adjacent described it arsenic specified aft responding to the scene.

"The probe revealed that the parent was giving the kid a bath successful a walk-in shower, utilizing a integrative retention bin," the section said successful a September press release. "The parent walked retired of the bath to get immoderate soap and near the kid unsocial for astir 2 minutes. When the parent returned, she recovered the kid look down successful the bin, unresponsive."

According to the Placentia Police Department (PPD) release, Beisel "began CPR connected the kid and erstwhile it was not effective, the parent harmed herself with a crisp object." She past stayed successful the bath with her son, Aidan, for astir six hours earlier she was recovered by the boy's father, who called 911 "after uncovering her successful the ablution with their dormant son."

Based connected the archetypal probe and interviews, Beisel was primitively taken into custody aft being discharged from the infirmary for involuntary manslaughter and kid maltreatment causing large bodily injury. She was arrested connected June 4 and charged with execution aft a "subsequent probe ruled retired drowning arsenic the origin of decease for the different steadfast 2-year-old and determined the mode of decease to beryllium homicide," according to the DA's office.

"A parent is simply a child's archetypal protector," said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer successful a statement. "For a parent to usage the precise arms that are meant to shield her kid from harm to alternatively physically extinguish the beingness of a kid she created is simply a depravity which we volition ne'er beryllium capable to afloat comprehend."

Beisel is being held successful Madera County without bail. She is scheduled to beryllium arraigned connected June 30 successful Fullerton.