A nine-year-old child drowned while taking a bath as reported by a recent inquest.
According to reports from local media outlets, the mother who always accompanied her child left her for a few minutes to find one of her favorite toys.
However, little did she know that a delay of a few seconds led to her daughter’s death.
The child named Mia Myerscough hailed from Wales and passed away after suffering from a seizure while bathing. She was found by her devastated mother underwater inside the bathtub.
Despite her parents’ efforts to get her immediate attention, it didn’t work. The parents did attempt CPR on her child’s body in the meantime that help was on the way but it was in vain.
She was soon rushed to a nearby hospital where resuscitation attempts were stopped as there was no hope.
The inquest heard how the mom rushed downstairs for five minutes to grab her child’s favorite toy.
The child was said to have suffered from a medical condition that’s related to epilepsy and therefore she would start to get very irritable when she didn’t get her toy.
This condition was outlined as being one that’s rare and can result in early onset seizures and sensory delays, not to mention behavioral problems.