Prosecutors said Victoria Moreno pushed the 3-year-old boy, Josiah Bell Brown, into the water back in September and did nothing to help get him out.
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The incident was captured on surveillance video, prosecutors said.
She's facing a first-degree murder charge.
According to her defense attorneys, Moreno has been diagnosed with depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder, a condition for which she takes medication.
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