PICKENS - Warrants have been served on an Easley mother, charging her in connection with the September drowning of her two children.

Sandy Palm Emery, 34, of 415 N. Main St., Apt 3G, Greenville, was charged with two counts each of involuntary manslaughter and unlawful neglect of a child.

On Saturday, Sept. 28, 2008, authorities responded to a 9-1-1 call concerning a child found in a pool at Emery’s 427 Rotterdam Road residence.

Upon arrival, responders discovered the body of a second child in the pool.

Efforts to resuscitate Carter Landon Emery, 3, and his sister Lacey Alley Emery, 2, were unsuccessful.

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office and the coroner’s office investigated the deaths initially, with Pickens County Coroner Dr. Jim Mahanes requesting that the State Law

Enforcement Division join in the investigation.

Warrants allege that Emery did “place her child, Carter Emery, at an unreasonable risk of harm affecting his safety and life.”

The children entered the pool while their mother was asleep, warrants allege.

The warrants further allege that although one door of the residence was secured from within, the older child knew how to get through it.

“A back door, on the second level, was ajar, and the storm door was not locked,” the warrants state. “Furniture had been placed in front of a door, but a child could easily climb over it … the child’s death was proximately caused by the defendant’s reprehensible disregard for her child’s safety,” the warrant stated.

Warrants allege that Emery was “derelict in her moral legal duties” toward her children.

Pickens County Sheriff’s deputies served the warrants on Emery Tuesday. Emery received a $25,000 recognizance bond and was returned to the Greenville County

Detention Center, where she is being held on unrelated charges of methamphetamine trafficking and possession of drug paraphernalia.