Tuesday, December 13, 2022, a mother called the emergency services when she found her 16-month-old daughter, lifeless, in the bathtub of the marital home, in Saint-brandan, in Brittany.
It is a tragic news item that occurred in Saint-Brandan, Brittany, Tuesday, December 13, 2022. At the end of the day, rescuers received a distress call from a mother revealing that her 16-month-old daughter had drowned in the bathtub. Despite the rapid intervention of the firefighters and the SMUR doctor, the child could not be saved. The baby therefore died at the marital home. Paramedics declared the child dead after attempting to resuscitate him for half an hour. Awareness of the tragic accident, the gendarmerie arrived on the spot and decided to open an investigation to try to determine the circumstances of the tragedyas reported by our colleagues from Telegram.
“An investigation has been opened to find the cause of death. She was entrusted to the brigade of Quintin“, said the public prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc, Nicolas Heitz. Drowning is one of the most common causes of death in children. They drown quietly in just a few centimeters of water, or 2.5 cm (1 inch) and very quickly. Everything suggests that the little girl was put in her bath and that her parents had to look away for a few seconds. Enough for the worst to happen.
It’s a whole family that must be affected by the death of the little girl
A few days before the end of the year celebrations, it is a whole family, but also a municipality which must have been affected by the tragedy. Relief also had to be affected by the death of the little girl. Not being able to resuscitate such a small child and declare his death must always be very difficult to do.