It was a tragic, but the girl was literally begging to be electrocuted. Bathroom outlets are GFI-protected. She probably chose to use an outlet from another room that was not GFI. Even that shouldn’t be a problem as phone chargers output low voltage.But she compounded the mistake by using a frayed extension cord. This is at least the second case where a teanager did the impossible to sabotage safety measures in bathroom to be electrocuted.
> Bathroom outlets are GFI-protected.
Not necessarily in older homes (and rewiring a whole house is a major expense). See my previous post.
> Bathroom outlets are GFI-protected.
I suppose what I said previously about not necessarily in older homes still applies, but not the part about needing ground wires (as Governor Dinwiddie has informed me).