A 'smiling and happy' 10-month-old baby died while in the bath with her two brothers in a tragic accident. Little Sara Moosa drowned in just five inches of water after her mum stepped out of the room for a few moments and a plastic toy got stuck over the plug hole, causing the bath to fill.
Sara's mum had put the baby in the bath beside her two brothers and the tap was running without the plug in while she bathed her children. She left the room when one of her son's asked her to get his shark toy and she went to go find it, the Mirror reports.
When she returned, Sara was lying on her side in the bath with her head under the water, an inquest at Leicester Town Hall heard. The youngster was sadly pronounced dead on August 14 last year at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
A post mortem examination concluded she had passed away from drowning. In a statement from the family to the inquest, Sara was described as a 'smiling and happy' little girl.
Summarising what happened, coroner Isobel Thistlethwaite said: "Sara and her two siblings were in the bath with the water running but no plug in. One sibling requested a toy.
"The mother returned and she noticed another toy had blocked the plug hole. The two siblings were standing up and Sara was on her side, under the water."
The family dialled 999 and were told to perform CPR on Sara in an attempt to resuscitate her. The paramedics found Sara downstairs on the kitchen counter and took over from her parents before taking the youngster away in an ambulance.
They took Sara and her mother to the hospital but the youngster could sadly not be saved. Miss Thistlethwaite recorded a conclusion of accidental death. She said: "No concerns were raised by the police following an inspection of the scene."
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