An Oklahoma pediatrician is now facing a second-degree murder charge following accusations of drowning her 4-year-old daughter during a short-term rental stay in Miami-Dade County in Florida.

Investigators with the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office initially recommended a first-degree murder charge against Dr. Neha Gupta, 36, for the death of her daughter, Aria Talathi, earlier this summer. In early August , however, prosecutors were defending a lesser charge of aggravated manslaughter in the case.

But now, a week later, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office is pursuing a more severe charge.

"With additional information supplied to prosecutors by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office, the felony charge of second-degree murder has now been filed and will be litigated as the appr

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