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"Three Tragic Cases of Toddlers Killed by Window Blind Cords"

Posted on the 14 November 2013 by Markwadsworth @Mark_Wadsworth
From The Daily MailAlexandra Lucy Hoegh, the daughter of one of Britain's richest men, died in October 2012 after becoming tangled in the cords of a window blind. The three-year-old was found at the £12million London home of Norwegian shipping tycoon Morten Hoegh by her mother Dana, 37.  Rithik Chakrabarti strangled himself on the cord of a blind in his room after he awoke from a nap and stood up in his bed to look out of the window in May 2011. The 18-month-old boy, of Poole, Dorset, got the cord wrapped around his neck while his parents thought he was asleep.  Josh Wakeham, of Newport, South Wales, who was 22 months old, was killed by the string on a cord as he looked out of the window. It is believed he may have struggled to get free from the string in January 2012, which then became wrapped more tightly around his neck.

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