In October 2023, investigators say the two 1-year-olds, Payton Cobb and Lilian Hannan, slipped through a propped-open gate that separated a play area from a pool at the home daycare.<\/p>\n
One other child was also found in the pool and survived.<\/p>\n
The Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office said Gheblehshenas went to another unlicensed daycare that day.<\/p>\n
She left four children with Fathizadeh.<\/p>\n
RELATED: 1-year-old girls ID’d as children who drowned in San Jose day care pool, coroner says<\/a><\/p>\n According to the investigation report, Gheblehshenas’s husband propped open the pool gate with a clothes hanging rack and did not close it.<\/p>\n While Fathizadeh was making breakfast, she left one child in a crib and three others in the backyard area unsupervised.<\/p>\n Investigators said that five minutes later, she discovered one of the children floating in the pool.<\/p>\n RELATED: San Jose day care shut down after 1-year-old children drown in pool<\/a><\/p>\n She performed CPR. Her brother found the two other children floating unconscious in the pool’s deep end.<\/p>\n “The defendants had one job most important, above all, which was to return them to their parents safely,” said Deputy District Attorney O’Brian Kenney, “They did not do that.”<\/p>\n “They trusted these people, they not only were responsible for these children, they were being paid for it,” one woman told ABC7 News at an earlier court appearance. She did not give her name but said she is the grandmother of Payton Cobb.<\/p>\n “Nobody sends kids out into the backyard – three toddlers – to play by themselves,” the grandmother said.<\/p>\n
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