Girls body found in tumble drier

[elsmommy]

I can't believe this

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lisa lisa

that's a good point Lisa - if our DC do 'disappear' in the house I'm sure most of us don't consider looking in appliances. I know on the occasiona when I thought I'd "lost" DS1 I'd searched behind the furniture, in all the rooms etc etc.........only to find him sat on the loo - but the tumble drier would probably have been the last thing on my listof places to look.

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Blimey. Call me a paranoid parent, but I think I'd cut the bits that overhung my garden, and just explain to the neighbour that that's what I was going to do, and why, so they didn't think I was a complete nutter.

This is so sad, a little life taken

Saw in a paper that the little girl got up at 5.30am and went downstairs while her mum was still in bed. That would explain why she didn't notice.

I've always thought that it was weird that my Tumble dryer had a child lock - but now I know why. I thought it was just so I didn't find bits of toast amongst my dry washing.

a friend of dp's mum who was a policeman got called out to a house a few years ago where the parents couldn't find their toddler. After a long search, they found him dead in the washing machine. So yes, it does happen. All v v .

He (the policeman) found it so hard to deal with he took early retirement despite having only a year's service left to go.

We've caught Psychomum's DS1 shutting DS2 in before (DS2 is nearly 3 and diddy, so fits easily... and he climbs in voluntarily!!!).

All it would take would be a sibling, or even a dog to lean against it and it shut.

it does happen and it is very tragic

my cd have habit of shutting theirselves in the cupboared on top of the stairs, it all just game

I also am scared after reading about the boy who got up in the night on his hols and died in the swimming pool. We are off to Turkey soon and have said to dh that we will have to sleep in the same room in the villa,(which we were going to do anyway) and drag the suitcase across the door every night just in case.

Dropinthe - You can get alarms that float on top of the pool & sound if the water is disturbed. Might give you some peace of mind

The DTs regularly shut each other in the tumble drier. Fortunately the day before they began this peculiar habit the door broke. I was so cross that I would have to pay a fortune to have a minor fault repaired. Once I saw that they could lock themselves in I was glad that it was broken.

Small children have an incredible habit of being where they shouldn't and getting into or out of places/things that they shouldn't.

The chances of this happening are very small. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't be vilgilant but it does mean that we shouldn't become paranoid etc.

This si really scary cos I used to do this only in the washing machine, to show off in front of my little brother when we were 8 and 5 respectively. Luckily, our au pair at the time found us doing it and found it so hysterically funny that she told my mum, and we never did it again.