Influencer Emilie Kiser says she will forever be haunted by one crucial decision she made before her toddler son’s tragic death.
Three-year-old Trigg was pulled unconscious from the family pool on May 12 and died in hospital six days later.
Earlier this month it was revealed Ms Kiser’s husband, Brady, who was looking after him at the time, had placed a $25 bet on an NBA playoff around the time he fell into the pool.
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Brady was also looking after the couple’s newborn son Theordore and told police he lost sight of the toddler for three to five minutes before he found him.
However video evidence collected by police showed Trigg “was in the backyard unsupervised for more than 9 minutes, and in the water for about 7 of those minutes”.

Police had recommended Brady be charged with felony child abuse, however Maricopa County attorney Rachel Mitchell later confirmed prosecutors would not be proceeding because there was no “reasonable likelihood of a conviction”.
Fresh insight into the the heartbreak of Ms Kiser, a social media star known for her lifestyle content with more than 4.1 million followers in TikTok and 1.7 million in Instagram, and the circumstances surrounding her son’s death have been revealed in recently unsealed documents from a court action she took in May.
Through her lawyers, Ms Kiser had asked the Arizona Superior Court for Maricopa County to issue and order to keep information about the incident and the police inquiry from being released to the public.
On June 3, a judge ruled in her favour, granting temporary confidentiality. But now a declaration she made to the court to support her bid for confidentiality has been unsealed.
In documents obtained by People, Ms Kiser calls the drowning tragedy the “most severe and emotional event I have ever experienced” and expresses concern that the release of specific information could harm her and husband Brady’s ability to heal.
She also reveals she is plagued by thoughts of what he could have done differently.
“I was not home when this happened. I will forever second guess that decision, among many others,” her statement to the court reads.
“Our love for our children has been shared and expressed worldwide, given my role as a social media personality with many ‘followers’ across a number of social media platforms.
“Nothing we have shared as part of my profession has depicted or been intended to depict anything but deep and adoring love within our Family. That is how it should stay forever in my mind and the minds of all others.”

Ms Kiser declared releasing graphic information about Trigg’s death would force the family to relive the tragedy and she was concerned about the “sick motives” of strangers and the media seeking information about the drowning.
“Knowing that intensely devastating personal information like that which various people have sought could be placed on the Internet where it will live forever, haunts me wondering whether Teddy, through his own curiosity or having it thrust upon him by another, could have to live through this horror on his own at some uncertain future date,” her statement read.
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