Post Date: 18th Dec, 2009 - 11:16pm / Post ID:
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Mom Under Fire For Tweet After Son's Death
How odd! So your toddler is fighting for his life and you take the time to write a tweet asking your followers to pray for him?
QUOTE MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. - A Florida mother is being criticized by bloggers and Twitter users for posting a tweet less than an hour after her 2-year-old son drowned in a swimming pool at her home.
Shellie Ross, a 38-year-old stay-at-home mother who lives outside Patrick Air Force Base where her husband serves, posted a message asking that people pray for her son after he had fallen into the family's swimming pool on Monday. Her son, Bryson, died at a hospital less than an hour after paramedics responded.
Ross has more than 5,000 followers on her Twitter account, Military_Mom, and she also maintains a blog, Blog4Mom.
Since the tweet, Ross has been criticized for taking the time to send out the message.
"I wish we could start a donation in Bryson Ross's name to sue his mother for negligence," one blogger, Madison McGraw, wrote Thursday....