Toddler suffocates under day care's beanbag chair

[Aredhel]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

I don't understand how you could sit on a bean bag chair and not realize that there was a hard child-size lump in the chair underneath you. Especially if that lump was struggling.

If the beanbag chair is large, the person sitting in it isn't going to feel any hard lumps, just the soft, squishy beanbag stuffing. And the child might have been pinned down so tightly that he was unable to move at all (or cry out). So I have no trouble seeing how this could happen.

What a horrible tragedy.

[pumpkin5]

I work in a half day preschool our class is small only 12 children 2 teachers but we are constantly counting to make sure we have all of the children. I don't want to judge not knowing the full situation but a class of 2 year olds I would be hyper aware and think I would have realized in a few minutes that one child was missing.

Feel so sad for the parents and the teacher who now have to live with the consequences.

[ABQConvict]

The way the filling of the bean bag chair works is that it would form around any object and compress thus giving the support needed for a person to sit on it.

Thus it is plausible that the sitter would not sense a small toddler and the toddler would be immmobilized, unable to struggle.