Today’s Clean Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A 9-month-old Quincy, Massachusetts girl drowned in October, 2007 after she climbed into a bucket filled with bleach. The Boston Herald reported that the baby’s mother Lee Ann Auperlee, 20, was watching three children inside her Sumner Street apartment when her daughter Mya crawled out of her sight and into a bucket on the kitchen floor. “I heard a boom,” said Angela Curran, who told the newspaper she was sleeping inside the apartment. “I came out and she was holding her baby. She said ‘What happened? What happened?’ We did CPR, mouth to mouth. She told me to call 911,” Curran told The Herald. The baby was rushed to Quincy Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. Curran said Auperlee told her the baby was in the living room just before the drowning. “She said Mya was tapping at the TV then she just crawled away toward the kitchen,” Curran said. No charges have been filed by police.
Culled from: TheBostonChannel.Com
Generously submitted by: Katchaya
This happens more often than you might think. I think there’s even warnings on scrub buckets that say to not leave them unattended where kids can fall into them. The hazard is because a toddler is still top heavy, and if he goes into the bucket head-first, as he would if he was leaning over to look into it, the bucket full of water is too heavy to just tip over and let him out.
I am a bit puzzled as to how Mya managed to do this if she was not yet walking.