- December 20, 2024
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An Ormond Beach woman whose 3-year-old son drowned in a retention pond last year after he was left unsupervised for several hours was sentenced to serve 12 years in prison on Friday, Dec. 13.
Myra Santiago, 24, was arrested in April 2023, on aggravated manslaughter and child neglect charges after police report she left her son, Aziryh, alone for four hours in her unit at the San Marco Apartments in Ormond Beach. The toddler was seen running toward the pond on a neighbor's security camera around 6:46 a.m. Police arrived at the apartment complex at 1:44 p.m. after receiving a call about a drowning.
During the investigation into the incident, police discovered that Santiago — who had initially claimed that a neighbor had watched Aziryh the night before while she was out of the home — had left the boy alone for about four hours. She returned between 1 and 2 a.m. and was asleep until 1:45 p.m., at which point she noticed her son was not in the apartment.
