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I read about this elsewhere. It's heartbreaking. The parents must be devastated.
I do wonder how the next-door neighbors heard the child crying and the child's parents did not.
NH Media reports is that the neighbor saw the little girl laying on the front step of her home. There as been no mention of crying in the reports at the time she found her.
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As always when there's a very adventuresome child, from the way grandpa describes her, they're always at more risk for harm than very cautious, hesitant children.
I'll be interested to see what they determine about the safety of the home. Apparently there are other children, and they are all living. Sometimes you get one child who is just TOO fearless.
I had one of those. When I showered, he was in an extra carseat that was bolted to a dresser, with a little basket of books. My 3 minute shower, with him free to wander, could have ended in disaster. I had to design locks for our kitchen cabinets that had hazardous stuff - he could open anything an adult could open, so "child proofing" didn't work. I had to lock as if I'm trying to keep adults out.
An aside, yesterday I was in the children's area of the library, and they had this toy with latches. It was a big board, and had lots of doors secured with standard household latches. The children were to figure out how to open all the latches to see what was behind the door. Um. Who thought that was a good idea, to purposely teach small children in the toddler area how to open all these bolts and latches?
Poor baby. Our eldest was an escape artist and we had to install a chain lock at an angle at the top of the door (we couldn't install any other type of lock since we lived in Army qtrs), as placing the lock any lower didn't work - he just dragged a chair from the dining room and climbed up; I could barely get out myself.
If I hadn't been right there the first time he unlocked the door before he was 2 years old and ran out a tragedy could have happened. Accidents happen and when children are involved they seem all the more horrific. Poor baby.
This is just as bad as child left in an auto on a hot summer day. Are charges pending?
You can't be serious...
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