PLACENTIA, Calif. (KABC) -- A mother has been arrested after her 2-year-old son died while she was giving him a bath in Placentia.

Officers responded to a home regarding a call of a child who was unresponsive shortly after 9 p.m. Monday, according to the Placentia Police Department.

First responders arrived and found the child in the bathroom, and took the boy to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The child's mother, 40-year-old Melissa Lynn Beisel, was also taken to the hospital with self-inflicted wounds.

Investigators say Beisel was giving the boy a bath in a walk-in shower using a plastic storage bin and walked away to get some soap. When she returned about two minutes later, she found the child face down and unresponsive in the bin.

She tried giving her son CPR, but when th

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