Monday, 5 March 2012

3-year-old girl punished for wetting bed,dies

In a horrific incident in Alaska, a little girl died of hypothermia after her mother and boyfriend locked her in a freezing bedroom for wetting the bed.Two sisters, aged 1 and 3, suffered hypothermia, when they were locked inside the room and a window was left open to air the room out, while temperatures outside were minus 30 degrees in America's nothernmost community, reports source.
The girls were trapped inside the room for an entire night in freezing temperature. The beddroom door's latch was broken as well. Hence, even if someone tried, they could not open the door from inside.

The mother and her boyfriend have been indicted on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, said the paper. Additionally, the man also faces second-degree murder and assault charges.
The boyfriend had been drinking on the night of the incident and two empty bottles were recovered from the house by the authorities.
He forgot to close the window in the children's bedroom in his drunken state before he went to sleep.
When he went to check on the kids the next morning, he found the 3-year-old motionless and she wasn't breathing. Both the children had suffered from hypothermia, hospital sources revealed.

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