BREAKING NEWS Internet star's husband set to face child abuse charge after toddler son drowned in mansion's back yard pool
Kiser, a popular mommy blogger, lost her son Trigg on May 18 - six days after he was found unresponsive in a backyard pool in Chandler, Arizona.
Police say they have recommended Kiser's husband Brady Kiser face a felony charge of child abuse over the death, though the Maricopa County Attorney's Office will make the final decision.
'After a thorough review of the evidence, we have submitted the case to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for further review and any potential prosecutorial decisions,' the Chandler, Arizona, Police Department said in a statement Thursday.
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Kohberger is 'vulnerable' being confined in the general population unit, retired NYPD inspector Paul Mauro admitted to Fox News, but can find some safety in the fact that 'Idaho is a death penalty state'. 'If you're in for life, and you kill somebody, well, that's going to get you to death penalty,' Mauro explained, suggesting that for most prisoners murder is too risky. Inmates sentenced to execution are housed in a designated part of the prison referred to as 'death row' and remain in isolation for 23 hours a day. As a result of his plea deal, Kohberger won't be kept near death row inmates - those most likely to be unbothered by the repercussions of committing murder. Kohberger was already in custody at the Idaho State Correctional Complex in Kuna by Wednesday afternoon, a source familiar with the case told Fox. The facility is located about 16 miles away from the Ada County courthouse in Boise, where he was sentenced earlier in the day. 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Trump lobbying Murdoch to kill the story will give pause to all still naive enough to think of Republicans as free speech defenders. By now, the fact that releasing only the grand jury testimony is relatively meaningless has sunk in and – never mind the base – what political scientists call 'low-information voters' will be left with a lasting impression of a Trump-Epstein connection or at least a chaotic administration. In the lawsuit, Trump has to prove 'actual malice' on the part of the newspaper – a difficult hurdle to jump. Unlike with the Russia investigation, Trump himself is the instigator of a lengthy process overshadowing his presidency; unlike with the many investigations between his presidential terms, when his lawyers outran the clock, time is not really on his side. In fact, he might be lucky if the case is dismissed on a technicality – he apparently failed to comply with a Florida law that requires giving defendants five days' notice. Jan-Werner Müller is a Guardian US columnist and a professor of politics at Princeton University
