Fla. Man Accused Of Drowning Autistic Boy

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Fla. Man Accused Of Drowning Autistic Boy

Friday, November 21, 2008

MONKS CORNER, S.C. -- A state judge has set a $50,000 bond for a

Florida man accused of homicide by child abuse in the drowning death

last summer of a mildly autistic child in Goose Creek, S.C.

Twenty-two-year-old Saquan Meekins of Palm Coast, Fla., is charged in

the death of 10-year-old Jon Jon , who died after swimming

June 1.

The ton Post and Courier reports Meekin's attorney, Mark

Peper, said during a Thursday hearing before Circuit Judge Markley

Dennis the child may have ingested too much tap water.

A police affidavit says witnesses saw Meekins holding the child under

water.

But Peper said the child could have ingested too much water when he

was hosed off at the pool. The child took a second shower a short

while later at his home.

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