{"id":93467,"date":"2025-12-23T07:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93467\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:50:21","slug":"florida-mom-arrested-for-holding-child-underwater-in-fancy-hotel-pool-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93467\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida mom arrested for holding child underwater in fancy hotel pool: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman held a 6-year-old boy underwater for several seconds in a pool at a four-star hotel in Florida after he allegedly bullied her son, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany Lee Griffith, 36, got in the pool at the fancy Gaylord Palms Hotel in Orlando on Friday afternoon and started screaming at the child after he dunked her own 6-year-old son, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/osceolasheriff\/posts\/pfbid02rTDScHHLApbiefuWsLvnpNpQde2NABarK1jvC9ezJY5h4zuXpV3kFZ3Xrany1yTXl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to the Osceola County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She then \u201cplaced her hands on the victim\u2019s shoulders and forcibly dunked him underwater for several seconds,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>The boy got out of the pool \u201cvisibly upset\u201d and bleeding from his nose and immediately told his parents what happened, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany Lee Griffith, 36, is charged with aggravated child abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Griffith is being held at the Osceola County Jail without bond, records show. WESH2<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at the Gaylord Palms Hotel in Orlando on Friday afternoon. WESH2<\/p>\n<p>Griffith of Fort Meyers then began yelling at the victim\u2019s mother before leaving the pool area, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses reported that three children, including the victim and Griffith\u2019s son, were playing in the pool when the \u201csplashing became aggressive,\u201d prompting the freak-out.<\/p>\n<p>She was arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse and booked at the Osceola County Jail where she is being held without bond, jail records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman held a 6-year-old boy underwater for several seconds in a pool at a four-star hotel in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6041,265,28,30,29,3964,49915,15649,4278],"class_list":["post-93467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-child-abuse","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hotels","tag-moms","tag-pools","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}