There is no trace of Christmas joy in the small Mühlviertel municipality of Vorderweissenbach in Upper Austria after the tragic frostbite of a two-year-old boy. Everywhere there is bewilderment and sadness over the loss of little Simon. And guesswork as to how he’d managed to get out of the cot. Friends stand by the broken parents.
It’s a terrible Christmas for the parents of little Simon from Vorderweissenbach. Horror and grief after the two-year-old’s gruesome frostbite have been omnipresent in the house that the family recently moved into since Thursday. A Red Cross crisis intervention team is taking care of the broken parents (31 and 28), who are now constantly reproaching themselves for the fact that they are Trusted the baby monitor on Thursday night while visiting their neighbors less than 100 meters away. Never climbed out before At the time they left, Simon was still sleeping peacefully in his cot. The little one had never climbed out there alone in the past – nobody could imagine that he would even be able to do so. Why the baby monitor didn’t work when the boy suddenly woke up around 10 p.m. and was looking for his parents is still one of the unsolved riddles in this tragic case for the time being open and walk outside. On his excursion he was only dressed in pajamas. He is also said to have crossed a residential street before freezing to death near the neighbors’ single garage. At the time it was minus ten degrees. All attempts at resuscitation had no chance after Simons found it around 5 a.m. Pregnant with the second child The heavily pregnant mother (she is expecting her second child in March) and the father now receive great emotional support from family and friends. Mayor Leopold Gartner also helps them. “I sat with them for an hour and a half and tried to comfort them – even if that is not really possible at the moment,” said Gartner, who was also deeply affected by the accident personally.
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