Toddler Swung In Sleeping Bag Dies
By shakeroo
@shakeroo (3986)
Malaysia
January 14, 2008 11:14am CST
A baby sitter swung an 18-month-old for fun and accidentally hit the wall causing severe head injury and death.
"An 18-month-old boy has died from a severe head injury he suffered when his baby sitter swung him around in a sleeping bag for fun and it accidentally hit a wall, Hartford police said.
Elijah Gasque was brain dead at about noon at Connecticut Children's Medical Center after being injured Friday evening in his home on Main Street, police said. The boy was kept on life support overnight as doctors prepared his body for organ donation."
I feel very sad reading this. What was the baby sitter thinking when she did that? That poor baby should not have died. There are many other ways to entertain a baby...
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3 responses
@janisspaggiari59 (656)
• United States
16 Jan 08
So many bad things happen in the world.It's the hardest to grasp why when it is an inecent child.
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@janisspaggiari59 (656)
• United States
14 Jan 08
She sure wasn't thinking anything bad could happen to the baby just by swinging him around.I would hate to be her right now.
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@lilybug (21107)
• United States
14 Jan 08
That poor little boy!
I will freely admit that I roughhouse with my kids, but I would never put on of them in a sleeping bag and swing it around over my head. That is just an accident waiting to happen. I doubt that the break up and the depression had anything to do with the boy dying. I think it was just a case of poor judgement, but if I was the mother I would probably be thinking a little different.
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