A Michigan mom whose infant son drowned in the bathtub while she chatted on the phone entered a no-contest plea to involuntary manslaughter this week and won’t spend more than a year in jail.

Miller’s sentencing is set for November, Law&Crime reported.

Olivia Miller, 23, was on the phone for 20 minutes, texting and talking, while 8-month-old Asher Johnson was in the tub in November 2023, as CrimeOnline previously reported.

Police said Miller told detectives she put the baby in the bathtub with the water running and then went to switch laundry. When she returned five minutes later, Asher was floating face up with his face underwater.

Detectives said she told “varying stories” in the course of the investigation and that she was on the phone for 20 minutes before she called her grandmother twice and then 911.

Four minutes before she called 911, she texted her father that she was “just trying to talk while I have time while Asher’s taking a nap.”

The chief medical examiner said that Asher, who was found on the floor of the bathroom by first responders, had been out of the tub for 20 minutes when deputies arrived seven minutes after the 911 call.

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[Featured image: Olivia Miller/Kent County Jail]