Overview

• The Chandler Police Department has forwarded a recommendation for a Class 4 felony child abuse charge against Brady Kiser, carrying a maximum penalty of three years in prison.
• The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office is reviewing the police referral to determine whether to file formal charges, seek further investigation, or drop the case.
• Brady Kiser told investigators he lost sight of his 3-year-old son for three to five minutes while caring for the couple’s newborn before finding him floating in the backyard pool.
• Search warrants executed in mid-May obtained surveillance footage from the family’s backyard cameras to corroborate Brady Kiser’s account of the drowning incident.
• A court issued an interim confidentiality order on June 3 that currently prohibits dissemination of the investigation and autopsy records as Emilie Kiser’s lawsuit moves forward.