BATON ROUGE — A Baton Rouge mom was arrested after her one-year-old son was found unresponsive in the family's backyard pool, according to an arrest affidavit.

Kelly Briscoe, 33, faces charges of cruelty to juveniles, child desertion and improper supervision of a minor by a parent.

East Baton Rouge Sheriff's deputies responded to a drowning call on Tiger Bend Road on September 7. The child was taken to the hospital after he was found unresponsive at the bottom of the 12-foot-deep pool. He was later released, but the arrest report adds that he could face future medical issues.

According to arrest documents, Briscoe told police that the one-year-old and his two-year-old brother were playing near their father, Briscoe's husband, while he was on his iPad. When Briscoe asked her husband to g

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