A White Plains mother was sentenced Tuesday
to 7 1/2 years in prison for trying to drown her 2-year-old son
in 2019.
La'Quanaya Ward,
30, pleaded guilty to attempted murder.
Prosecutors says
she attempted to drown her child in a bathtub at the Coachman
Family Center in White Plains, where she was a resident.
Ward was caught in the act and stopped by another
resident. Her children were placed in foster care.