Authorities in Florida first accused Oklahoma pediatrician Neha Gupta of staging her daughter's murder in late June as an accidental drowning ― but now, as she remains jailed without bond in Miami-Dade County, prosecutors are pursuing a lesser charge of aggravated manslaughter against her.

Gupta, 36, was arrested by law enforcement last month at her Edmond home after she was accused of killing her 4-year-old daughter, Aria Talathi, while they were staying at an Airbnb north of Miami in southeast Florida.

Officers with the Village of El Portal Police Department responded to a 911 call about 3:40 a.m. June 27 reporting a child drowning in the residential pool. Paramedics took the unresponsive child to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where Aria was pronounced dead just before 4:30 a.m., accord

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