A WOMAN accused of letting her baby drown was told she had had treated the infant’s bath as if it was “a playpen”.

Sarah Elizabeth Morris found her twin Rosie lying on her back after leaving the 13-month-old baby unattended for times in the bath while she took a lengthy phone call with her partner.

Mold Crown Court has heard how Rosie and her twin were left unsupported in an adult bath at Morris’ Greenfield flat. The water level was up to their waists and the prosecution claim the tragedy could have been avoided had their mother supervised them properly.

Morris said how during the telephone call with Ms Swindells – which lasted 47 minutes - she spent most of her time in the bathroom and when she did step outside of it she could hear the twins playing at all times.

But prosecuting barrister Oliver Saxby QC accused: “I’m suggesting you treated the bath like a playpen and you thought you could leave them.

“The truth is that all you did was pop your head round every now and then, that’s all you did, isn’t it?”

Morris recalled how she previously used a baby seat to bath Rosie, but had needed a baby bath for her other twin as he “was not as good at sitting as Rosie”.

She said she never had a problem before the tragedy on July 29, 2015.

On the day she recalled she was “in and out” of the bathroom playing with Rosie and placed the twins facing each other with Rosie by the tap and the other twin seated away from the tap.

“Why didn’t you use the bath seat?” Mr Saxby asked her.

Morris replied: “I thought they were quite stable and could sit up properly. I thought they’d be okay.”

She recalled: “Rosie was bum-shuffling and got excited so I gave her a bath first. She was shouting “mum” and she was very happy and looking at me with a cheeky smile.”

She said she was alerted when her other twin pulled the plug out and was banging it on the side of the bath.

When she went into the bathroom she found Rosie “lying on her back in a bath with no water.”

Desperate and hysterical she rang a friend, Gemma Egerton, who advised her to start CPR. A fast response paramedic team arrived at the flat and rushed Rosie to Glan Clwyd Hospital, but she was pronounced dead later that evening.

“I was hoping they would bring her back,” said Morris, who travelled to hospital in a separate ambulance.

She told the court: “I was in a bad state, a really bad state.”

Morris, 35, of Thomas Row, High Street, Bagillt, has pleaded not guilty to gross negligence manslaughter and an alternative charge of child cruelty with the charges arising more than three years after the death of Rosie Morris, at her flat at Cilgant, Yr Hen Ysgol in Greenfield.

The trial continues