A young girl tragically lost her life while playing in a bouncy castle after employees got distracted by their mobile phones.
4-year-old Valeria was playing on an inflatable castle at an entertainment park in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, when she got tangled in the ropes that caused her to suffocate.
The girl’s shocking death allegedly took place as three employees were looking at their phones when they should have been supervising the children.
Valeria was eventually found dead by her mother who went up the castle to look for her after realizing that the girl had stopped laughing.
“At first Anna [the girl’s mom] thought that Valeria had lost consciousness while playing in the heat and tried to wake her up,” Natalia Kuchynska, a family friend, revealed.
“There were no medical assistants providing first aid on site. Someone brought dentists from a clinic nearby.
“They examined the child, tried to wake her up with ammonia, and shone a light into her eyes. When the ambulance arrived, paramedics pronounced Valeria dead.”
A preliminary investigation into the tragic death also revealed that three staffers responsible for ensuring safety in the area were busy looking at their phones when the incident happened.
“The assistants fled the scene after Valeria was found,” Kuchynska added. “Anna is devastated by the loss. The funeral day was very difficult.”
Confirming the incident was also the local police chief, Sergiy Shaikhet, who claimed “it was preliminarily established that a four-year-old girl got entangled in the loops on the wall of a bouncy castle while playing on it. According to preliminary findings of experts, the child died as a result of suffocation.”
While the bouncy castle’s owner has already been arrested, it remains unclear if the three workers were caught and what charges they face.
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