Last Lawsuit in Virginia Boy’s Septic Tank Drowning Settled

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May 13, 2019US News
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Last Lawsuit in Virginia Boy’s Septic Tank Drowning Settled
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PULASKI, Va.—A wrongful death lawsuit filed in connection with the drowning of a 5-year-old Virginia boy in a septic tank has been settled with a $200,000 insurance payment to his parents and sister.

The Roanoke Times reports the order entered on May 8 in Pulaski County Circuit Court resolves the last legal case connected to the boy’s March 2015 death.

Gary and Sharon Meadows owned the property where Noah died and were the remaining defendants in the wrongful death lawsuit. The order ending the case said that the couple admitted no liability for the boy’s death.

Noah disappeared from his family’s rented mobile home while his mother napped. He was found in a septic tank after a four-day search.

Noah’s parents, Ashley White and Paul Thomas, were convicted of child abuse and neglect.

Las Vegas Mother Charged With Drowning Daughter in Bathtub

A Las Vegas mother has been charged with murdering her 2-year-old daughter by drowning her in the bathtub, according to police.

Linette Boedicker, 44, phoned 911  herself at around 3 p.m. on May 11 to say that her daughter was drowned in the bathtub, according to a statement (pdf) from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

“Arriving officers located an unresponsive child floating in a bathtub,” said the statement. “The officers took the child out of the bathtub and started to perform CPR. Medical personnel transported the child to UMC trauma where she was pronounced deceased. ”

Investigators determined that the girl had been put in the bathtub by her mother, according to the police statement.

“Warrichaiet held the child under the water until she stopped breathing and then called 911. A dispatcher advised Warrichaiet to take the child out of the water and perform CPR, but she refused. ”

Boedicker, who also goes by the surname of Warrichaiet,  has been charged with open murder, according to jail records.

The dispatcher quickly became concerned when Boedicker ignored her instructions, reported KTNV.

Police arrived at the house within five minutes, said Ray Spencer, head of the local homicide division, according to KTNV.

But when they got there, Boedicker took her time answering the door, he said.

“Disturbing is an understatement,” Spencer said. “I have officers out here who are shaken up. We have a 2-year-old that was senseless murdered,” he said.

According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, police indicated it was unclear whether the girl was alive at the time her mother called 911.

“She did not pull the child out of the bathtub. That we do know,” Spencer told the newspaper.

A neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified, told KTNV they watched Boedicker being taken into custody.

“She had no remorse, remorse of like, ‘My baby’s dead, my baby’s not here,'” the neighbor said.

Police told the Journal that they had been called to the same apartment unit—on North Walnut Road—for a domestic disturbance in the morning of the same day.

North Walnut Road
The apartment complex on North Walnut Road, Las Vegas, where a 2-year-old girl drowned on May 11, 2019. (Screenshot/Google Maps)
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The apartment complex on North Walnut Road, Las Vegas, where a 2-year-old girl drowned on May 11, 2019. (Screenshot/Google Maps)

The girl’s identity and cause of death will be released by the county coroner at a later date, according to police.

Boedicker is being held in Clark County Detention Center, and is due in court on May 14.

Boedicker has currently been charged with open murder, which gives prosecutors the opportunity to narrow the charges at a later date to one of three charges: first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and the lesser-used category of voluntary and involuntary manslaughter.

Nevada is a death penalty state.

The Associated Press and Epoch Times reporter Simon Veazey contributed to this report.

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