Live Oak, FL – Official: 3 Children Playing Outside Accidentally Trapped In Freezer Died Of Asphyxiation

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    The chest style freezer the children were foundLive Oak, FL – Autopsies showed three young children died of accidental asphyxiation when they became trapped in an unplugged chest-style freezer in their yard in north Florida.

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    Suwannee County Sheriff Sam St. John said there were no signs of trauma on the children, ages 1, 4 and 6. Their bodies were found Sunday at a home outside of Live Oak after they went missing while playing outside.

    The Gainesville Sun reports two families lived at the home — a woman and her 4-year-old daughter, and the grandmother of the other two children.

    St. John said the mother went inside while the children were playing on a trampoline. When she returned, they were gone. The children weren’t breathing when they were found inside the freezer, which had a latch keeping them from opening it.


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    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    5 years ago

    I will not read the story. I am sorry I read the headline.

    Aron1
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    Aron1
    5 years ago

    How terrible!

    MyThreeCents
    MyThreeCents
    5 years ago

    How can a 1 year old and a 4 year play outside unsupervised? That trampoline doesn’t look so safe either, there’s no safety netting around it. Sounds like a case of neglect to me. But, I do feel sorry for the mother and grandmother. It is a tragedy.

    Granny
    Granny
    5 years ago

    So awful. This used to happen occasionally, especially when people put out an old refrigerator for garbage pick-up. Children playing in the street would hide in there.
    As a response, there are now codes that now that prohibit all refrigerators from being having outside latches that can’t be opened from the inside. They should do the same with freezers.
    Criticism of the parents is unwarranted. Children get into mischief all the time, even with parents nearby.

    5 years ago

    Since the early 1960′ s, manufacturers of refrigerators and freezers have been required by law, NOT to have latches on the doors of such devices, in order to close them, as there were similar accidents in the past of young children becoming trapped in refrigerators. Hence, all should notice that their home refrigeration devices have a magnetic strip which will close, and which will open, if pressed upon from the inside. I don’t know when the freezer in this horrible tragedy was manufactured. However, any refrigeration device with a latch, whether a freezer or refrigerator, should be discarded, with the latch disabled.

    I feel horrible that this avoidable accident occurred.

    Vvvvv
    Vvvvv
    5 years ago

    Can we lock hashitmer in?