Pagan
KINGSTON – The mother of a 10-month-old girl, who drowned in the bathtub at their home in Marlboro, pled guilty in Ulster County Court on Thursday to criminally negligent homicide and endangering the welfare of a child.
Kayla Pagan, 26, had left her daughter, Lilliana, alone for several minutes on the evening of July 8, 2016, while the tub was filling with water. She left the room to attend to other matters inside and outside the house, District Attorney Holly Carnright said.
The child’s father, Richard Ryerson, returned home to 8 Hideaway Lane in Marlboro to find his daughter floating face down in the bathtub full of water. He removed her, started CPR, and called 911. Efforts to resuscitate were performed with instructions from the 911 operator but did not save the child, who was pronounced dead at St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh.
Pagan remains in the Ulster County Jail pending her sentencing in May.
