Messy house responsible for child death

[Dream]

A search for a missing 17-month-old girl ended tragically Saturday morning after her body was recovered beneath a toppled pile of laundry inside her grandmother's closet.

The family of little Zyia Turner are calling her death an accident after cadaver dogs unearthed her body hours after an Amber Alert was issued throughout their Detroit community on Friday afternoon.

'We were hoping, just hoping someone had took her,' Ziya’s grandmother Bridget Elam told WXYZ behind tears.

'We never thought she was in the house right up under our nose. It didn’t cross our minds.'

It was in a dishevelled bedroom of Ms Elam’s home, seen on camera packed with thrown clothes and other variously sprawled items, that her granddaughter was found by police.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...eath-toppled-laundry-grandmothers-closet.html

Sad story. After looking at those pictures I don't understand how some people could live like this, if they had only picked up every once in a while this wouldn't have happened.

 

[bbailey861]

'We were hoping, just hoping someone had took her,' Ziya’s grandmother Bridget Elam told WXYZ behind tears.

What? As opposed to ' We were hoping, just hoping someone didn't take her - but instead we would find her lifeless body under a mound of our own dirty laundry'?? This family should be flogged.

 

[Kirkman1987]

Terrible. People with children have to take responsibility for their children's safety and show common sense. These people obviously didn't.

 

[auntiehill]

I wonder if they will be charged with negligence or something similar?

 

[Miss Chicken]

I know a lady whose house was that messy. At one stage she was helping a recently widowed father with his housework but she wouldn't do any work in her house despite having 5 young children. Luckily, unlike the poor, poor child in this article, those five children never came to any harm. In fact two of the daughters are friends of mine and they didn't inherit their moth slothness and both keep their houses clean and tidy.

My eldest son went missing from my house once when he was about two. I searched the whole house for him including looking in all the wardrobes. I couldn't understand how he could have got out of the house but I started searching the street, asking all my neighbours if they had seen him and looking in their yards. I heard a couple of snide remarks off a couple of bitchy women along the lines 'why doesn't she better keep an eye on him" and stating how neglectful I was.

In the end I went back inside to do one last search of the house before I called the police. I was calling out his name when I heard him giggling. I followed the sound and it was coming from the wardrobe. I opened the wardrobe door and didn't see him. Heard him giggle again and I moved a box and there he was hiding on the shelf on the wardrobe (above the hanging space). Even today I cannot work out how a small child could have got up on that shelf.

 

[Amaris]

Oh gods, that's horrible. That poor little baby.