Special Needs Toddler Drowns in Tub While Foster Mom Chats on Phone for 30 Minutes

A 25-year-old Indiana woman has been charged with neglect five months after she left her 21-month-old foster daughter in a bathtub, where she drowned while the mother was chatting on the phone for 30 minutes. According to court documents, Hailynn Volpatti told investigators on May 21 that she left the little girl alone in the …