Posted on 01/15/2019 10:13:11 AM PST by BenLurkin
The mother of the 4-year-old told investigators that she was outside watching the children and went in to use the bathroom. When she returned, the children were gone.
The mother said she woke up the grandmother of the other two children and they began to search around the house as well as a vacant home next door, the sheriffs office said.
Sheriff Sam St. John told NBC News that the two women, who are friends and live together at the home with the children, spent between 30 to 40 minutes looking for the kids before they checked the freezer.
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That's silly. People are always going to look for their kids first.
Sometimes accidents happen.
I have another question but can';t say it out loud.
That I believe. 3 poor kids trapped in a chest freezer could easily suffocate within 30 minutes.
But did those women immediately start the search? And why not check that freezer first?
It was a small chest freezer, not one of the old huge ones.................
Still, it’s 3 ft. high. That’s higher than a crib side or playpen. And it’s a smooth surface. Someone had to boost that one year old.
The 6 year old....................
A whole spate of these tragedies happened in the 1950s, causing all the manufacturers to design their freezers so kids couldnt lock themselves in.
In London around 1900, the number of kids killed each year by falling into the boiling water used to do the wash was around 10,000. Deaths by these sorts of accidents are absurdly rare nowadays - thank god.
Hopefully a thorough investigation and autopsy will show exactly how and where these kids died.
A perfect example of having w laws do not supplant common sense
Back in 1968, my father moved our family from Texas to Colorado because he had taken a job there. The house was a lovely split-level ranch home on a huge piece of land. Later, I found out that the previous owners had lost a young boy while living there because he had locked himself in the freezer out in the garage.
I didn’t feel “haunted” and nothing unusual happened to us while we lived there but I found out that, years later, the house was abandoned and became occupied by wild horses seeking to escape the winter cold.
One of the leading causes of death in very young children is a 5 gallon pail, with water in it.
Parents need to assess their homes, and remove the obvious hazards. This freezer was one of those.
A whole spate of these tragedies happened in the 1950s, causing all the manufacturers to design their freezers so kids couldnt lock themselves in. Horrible.
The hasp was apparently installed by the owner of the freezer. It was described as an “aftermarket” hasp in the local paper.
What I don’t understand is how the heck did the one year old get into the chest freezer.
I’ve seen many styles of chest freezers and they are all taller then a one year old.
Did the 4 year old pull the 1 year old into it?
Sorry. It makes no sense.
And I cannot accept they’d not look in the chest freezer FIRST. It should never have been there....
Dreadful. RIP.
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