Chonburi: Tragedy as three year old drowns in a bucket while carers were doing online lessons

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Chonburi: Tragedy as three year old drowns in a bucket while carers were doing online lessons

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Tragedy struck a family in Ban Bung, Chonburi yesterday after a three year old girl drowned in an outside toilet.

 

Little Am's aunt Wilaiporn had gone to use the loo and been surprised to hear the sound of gushing water.

 

She called out to whoever might be in the toilet but getting no response she opened the door.

 

To her horror her niece was face down in a plastic bucket with her legs in the air. 

 

She was rushed to hospital but died on the way.

 

Sanook reported a pitiful scene at the hospital when Pol Capt Wirat Trakoonthai of the Bang Bung constabulary came to investigate. 

 

Sanook reported that the aunt and grandparents were looking after the child after Am's father was thrown in jail and her mother deserted her.

 

The aunt's children would normally have been taking care of Am but they were busy with online lessons leaving the child to go into the outside toilets by herself.

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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[DoctorG]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The aunt's children would normally have been taking care of Am but they were busy with online lessons leaving the child to go into the outside toilets by herself.

Wouldn't they normally have been in school?

[nausea]

A common thing in the UK, when I was a kid, was to get rid of the fish pool when you had a newborn. Water and young kids don't mix. Apart from that I would say that leaving children (or animals for that matter) under the care of others is always problematic. Kids need constant attention, take your eyes off them for a second and you have a potential problem. I always remember when my 9 year old sister wandered off in Skegness. My god, talk about panic. Luckily it turned out OK.

[cardinalblue]

Always an excuse rather than say someone has accountability 24/7...

 

own it...

 

just unlucky to be born into that family....Her future would have been bleak...

 

 

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, DoctorG said:

Wouldn't they normally have been in school?

I think they're talking about the current situation, yes the children would "normally be in school" so childcare for the 3 year old would have been undertaken by someone else... however with children home from school doing online lessons due to school shutdown the care duty fell to them as they were at home.

But obviously the responsibility of the 3 year old was not what it should have been and as we know tragedy strikes in a split second of absent mindedness.

Rip little one, better luck next time around.

 

 

[fasteddie]

RIP little angel.

[Soikhaonoiken]

Tragic story, R. I. P little girl

[jacko45k]

I have never thought of that particular danger of the Thai habit of having a large bucket of water as a shower/washing necessity, and a toddler clambering up and tipping in head first. 

[ThaiFelix]

Thats heartbreaking.......RIP little one.

[mikebell]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

Bang Bung constabulary

Unfortunate name for RTP.