Mountain View police on Friday announced the arrest of two family members of a 9-year-old boy who drowned at a pool in July.
Rocio Berberli Ochoa, a 25-year-old woman, and Pedro Rivera, a 42-year-old man, were arrested on suspicion of felony child endangerment in connection with the drowning reported around 4 p.m. on July 6 in the 1800 block of Ednamary Way, police said.
The boy was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Investigators learned that no adult was present when the boy drowned, and that he had been able to leave his home unsupervised.
Ochoa and Rivera were both arrested on Thursday and booked into Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose. — Bay City News
These parents have gone through enough with the death of this boy. Hitting them with criminal charges and jail is extreme cruelty. The police should be ashamed.
The police are doing their job. I understand the parents have suffered enough mindset, but a 9-year-old is too young to be left unsupervised. If I’m reading the article correctly, these are relatives, not the parents.