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Mom avoids jail after drowning daughter and stabbing loved ones during COVID 'insanity'
WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Bland's lawyer believes this is the first successful COVID insanity defense in the U.S. Her other children were able to escape the home unharmed.
A mother who allegedly drowned her 15-month-old daughter in a bathtub and stabbed her husband and teenage daughter was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Precious Bland waived her right to a jury trial and instead received a bench trial. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Miguel de la O acquitted her of several charges, including the death of her infant daughter .
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