‘I killed my daughter for a game?’: Dad was playing ‘Path of Exile’ while his baby drowned in the tub, police say

Mugshot of Joshua Ruiz-Martinez

Joshua Ruiz-Martinez (Osceola County Jail).

A Florida man whose baby daughter drowned after he allegedly left her in the bathtub while he played video games was charged with aggravated manslaughter.

Joshua Ruiz-Martinez, 32, was caring for his infant daughter on the night of April 21, 2024, in the apartment that he shared with his partner, the mother of the child. According to an arrest affidavit, Ruiz-Martinez bathed the baby because she was getting “fussy.” The report stated that the baby had eczema, and Ruiz-Martinez believed a bath would help her. While the baby was in the tub with water “up to her stomach,” Ruiz-Martinez told police that he left her alone for three minutes while he went and got a bottle. When he returned, the baby was “unresponsive, face down in the water.”

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