{"id":1000,"date":"2026-07-01T19:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:23:33","slug":"influencer-whose-two-year-old-drowned-in-backyard-pool-hits-back-at-people-blaming-him-for-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Influencer whose two-year-old drowned in backyard pool hits back at people blaming him for her death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Morton, 33, a father of six, announced in a post on Facebook that his daughter Rose had drowned in the family\u2019s backyard pool in Hoschton, Georgia last Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou were the best daughter a father could ever ask for,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<div id=\"aek21-3002364003\" class=\"aek21-article2\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cLosing a child is a pain I wouldn\u2019t wish on my worst enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s office confirmed Rose\u2019s death but said her exact cause of death has not yet been determined. According to Morton, Rose wandered into the backyard and entered the pool by herself.<\/p>\n<div id=\"aek21-2592051394\" class=\"aek21-article3\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Morton hits back at critics<\/strong><br \/>\nAs criticism began circulating online, Morton returned to Facebook with a blunt response to those pointing the finger at him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\">\n<div>Advertisements<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cStupid b**es talking sh** like I wasnt even home when my baby died so stop talking about what i let happen,\u201d he wrote and added:<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"aek21-2169705855\" class=\"aek21-article4\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cFocus on your f*ed up life and let my family grieve in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His management team followed up with a statement urging the public to stop spreading unverified information, warning that false or defamatory reporting could be addressed through legal channels.<\/p>\n<div id=\"aek21-729625476\" class=\"aek21-article5\"><\/div>\n<p>They also clarified that while content has continued appearing on Morton\u2019s accounts, he is not the one posting it, his team is managing his platforms while he steps back to grieve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Another influencer, another devastating loss<\/strong><br \/>\nEarlier this year, influencer Emilie Kiser opened up about the death of her three-year-old son Trigg, who died in May 2025 after falling into the family\u2019s backyard pool in Arizona.<\/p>\n<div id=\"aek21-412644221\" class=\"aek21-article6\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking on the On Purpose podcast with Jay Shetty, Kiser described how she has chosen to keep going for the sake of her younger son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLosing a child really shows you in the scariest, most real way possible just how quickly life can change,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"aek21-993002566\" class=\"aek21-article7\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI can either let this completely derail me, or I can do everything in my power to be the best mom I possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Morton, 33, a father of six, announced in a post on Facebook that his daughter Rose had drowned in the family\u2019s backyard pool in Hoschton, Georgia last Sunday. \u201cYou were the best daughter a father could ever ask for,\u201d he wrote. \u201cLosing a child is a pain I wouldn\u2019t wish on my worst enemy.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}