TMP Reports
Posted: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:14 pm

Screams from a 2-year-old twin alerted a man to grab her brother found convulsing face down in the bathtub and begin pumping his stomach until the toddler heaved water out Monday night, a sheriff’s deputy reported.

The boy was treated at Middle Tennessee Medical Center where a doctor notified the Department of Children’s Services and the sheriff’s office because of the boy’s condition and old bruises on his body, Deputy Roscoe Sanders reported.

A doctor “became concerned when the mother’s boyfriend stated that the child was left unmonitored in a bathtub for 30 minutes,” Sanders reported.

The mother told Sanders she put the twins in the bathtub and asked her boyfriend to watch them while she ran errands. He was on the computer when her heard the twin girl screaming. He found the boy convulsing and treated him before calling the mother who called paramedics.

Paramedics treated the boy en route to the medical center. The doctor examined the toddler who was blue with altered loss of consciousness and a low body temperature. He was in stable condition but kept in the hospital overnight for observation.

Detective D.J. Jackson and DCS are investigating.