ROSWELL, Ga. — Police in Florida say a 71-year-old grandmother drowned her 5-year-old grandson while on vacation.
The 5-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, is from Roswell, Ga.
Officials with the Franklin County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the boy was killed Monday in St. George Island, Fla.
Marianne Bordt, 71, the boy's grandmother, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Bordt and her husband, both German nationals, were vacationing in Florida with the child, police said.
Investigators allege that when Marianne Bordt's husband went to the store Monday afternoon, she drowned the boy in the bathtub.
An autopsy was set to be performed Tuesday.
Bordt was booked into the Franklin County Jail. The Germany Consulate has been contacted, police said.