Shannon Johnson Gets What Shellie Ross Deserves

Shannon Johnson was sentenced to 10 years in prison following the death of her 13 month old son drowning in the bathtub while she was playing a game on Facebook.

It's nice to know that some police departments take the neglect of children seriously, unlike the police in the case of Shellie Ross, who's son called 911 at 5:23 to report that his 2 year old brother was floating in the pool, dead.

Here are Shellie's Tweets leading up to the death (of course, Ms. Ross has since deleted her pictures. But why delete your pictures unless you felt you were guilty of something??)

My dogs caught and flipped a tourtoise on it's back, seems to be fine though http://twitpic.com/tjcoi
5:17 PM Dec 14th from Echofon

One of our roosters looking out at me tonight http://twitpic.com/tjcsk
5:18 PM Dec 14th from Echofon

Now they are all coming out to see what I am doinghttp://twitpic.com/tjd1d
5:19 PM Dec 14th from Echofon


@themorrisbunch yep almost 30 total these are my oldest ones 4 roos the rest girls http://twitpic.com/tjd9e
5:21 PM Dec 14th from Echofon in reply to themorrisbunch

Fog is rolling in thick scared the birds back in the coop
5:22 PM Dec 14th from Echofon


And then, at 5:23, her 11 year old son calls 911 to say his 2 year old brother is floating in the pool.

Of course, wonderful mother that Shellie is, she blamed the 11 year old - saying that she had been cleaning the chicken coops and told the 11 year old to take the child into the house. The 11 year old, who she "tweeted" in the morning, had stayed home sick from school that day...so  if he was "sick" what was he doing outside and why was he babysitting his 2 year old brother?

To me, the most tragic part of this story is that Ross continued to get on her computer after the tragic death of her son, a death that could have been prevented if she was more concerned with her watching her son than she was about Tweeting her every move, and use the very social media that she was addicted to that caused her son to drown.

Shannon Johnson received 10 years in prison for allowing her son to drown while she was on FaceBook. Shellie Ross received sympathy because she was firmly entrenched in the Mommy Blogger community. But I dare you ask all those who support her if those parents would leave their children alone with Ms. Ross, her iPad, and a pool....