Day maintains that 6-year-old Taylor Syring's drowning death at a Texas beach in was an accident. Serving nearly 10 years of her life sentence, she maintains that the boy's drowning death at a Texas beach was an accident. Day said now is the right time to tell her story.
It was a Friday and she said that Taylor wanted to go to the beach. Day said the two drove home to pick up bathing suits and beach towels before going to the beach. Day also told investigators that the beach was busy that day so the two had gone down to a more secluded area to avoid crowds. She said she had put a lifejacket on Taylor and watched him play in the water before taking off the lifejacket because it had been giving him a rash. I said, 'If you can show me that you're OK and you feel safe enough to dive under the waves and you feel comfortable, then I'll let you swim and play in the shallow water, without your lifejacket,'" said Day.
She said she turned around to head back to the beach and by the time she turned back around, Taylor was gone. I thought maybe he'd dived under the waves and he was swimming, but then I realized he didn't surface and I ran in the water to where he was and he was gone And then I saw him floating, face down," said Day. And it just wasn't coming out. I didn't know why.
I panicked. And I was disoriented. I wasn't thinking clearly," she added. Day told police she "panicked" and instead of calling she drove the unconscious child to a hospital 12 miles away. At the hospital, Taylor was pronounced dead. Investigators began to question Day's story. They found it suspicious that she had driven 12 miles to a hospital because she said she believed that the paramedics would take too long to arrive. Investigators later found out that a Corpus Christi fire station was less than three miles away from the beach where Day had brought Taylor.
Police arrested Day on child endangerment charges three days after Taylor's death. At the time, Day and Taylor's father, David Syring, had been married for two months and Taylor would visit on weekends. And Laura was very friendly. She was married, too. She would explain to me the issues that she had in her marriage.
