Staff Report

Shawna Renee Glosser

ROCHESTER — A Rochester woman was recently arrested on a neglect charge after her infant daughter drowned in a bathtub.

Shawna Renee Glosser, 26, 506 Mitchell Drive Apartment 14, Rochester, is charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death, a level 1 felony.

Around 10 a.m. Aug. 11, officers with the Rochester Police Department and Fulton County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of an infant who was not breathing. While en route to the scene, officers were advised it was a drowning incident and that the child was outside.

According to court documents, when officers arrived at the scene, they began performing CPR on a seven-month-old infant, Arabella Martir.

A visibly distraught woman, later identified as Glosser, was near the area. Glosser is Arabella’s mother.

Responding officers asked Glosser to take them to where the drowning occurred. Glosser led officers to her apartment. Upon entering the apartment, officers smelled burnt marijuana.

Officers were then escorted to the apartment’s bathroom, where they noticed the bathtub was filled at least halfway with water. In the bathtub, there was a plastic infant seat where Arabella had been. The officers immediately commented that there was too much water in the bathtub for such a small baby.

Glosser told an officer that she made a “bad mom move” by leaving the infant in the bathtub unattended. When she returned, she found Arabella facedown in the water.

Upon leaving the apartment to retrieve a camera to take photographs of the scene, the officer was confronted by two men, one of which being Arabella’s father. While walking back to the apartment, officers had to separate Arabella’s father from Glosser as he accused Glosser of killing Arabella.

The depth of the water in the bathtub was over six inches. About a half hour after officers responded to the scene, the temperature of the water was around 93 degrees Fahrenheit.

While searching the home, officers found multiple narcotics, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Officers then went to Woodlawn Hospital around noon, where they were informed that Arabella had just been pronounced deceased.

Glosser has two other children who were not at the apartment during this incident.

For this case, Glosser was booked in the Fulton County Jail on Sept. 7.