Mum, 31, who let her seven-month-old son drown while she played cooking games on her phone is jailed A MUM who was playing a cooking game on her phone while her baby son drowned in the bath has been jailed for seven years for manslaughter.
Seven-month-old Charlie Goodall died after falling over in an unstable bath seat as his mother Danielle Massey left him alone "for a prolonged period of time" at their home in County Durham.
The defendant denied intentionally leaving Charlie unsupervised for a prolonged period of time, telling the court she had left the ground floor bathroom to go upstairs and get a towel for him.
She said she went into the bathroom to find Charlie unresponsive in the bath and called 999.
The court heard she gave varying accounts of how long Charlie had been left unattended, ranging from two to 10 minutes.
