Two 4-year-olds in Florida reportedly died last month after they got trapped in their toy box and suffocated.
Aurora and Kellan Starr’s father put them to bed on the night of August 25. The pair got up to play early the next morning before eventually falling asleep together in their cedar toy box alongside some stuffed animals, according to WTLV.
Their mother wrote that “sometime during their sleep one of them must have moved or kicked during a dream and it caused the lid of this old wooden cedar chest to close.” She said she was unaware that the toy box, once closed, became airtight and soundproof.
“They slowly ran out of oxygen within a couple of hours and passed away. They never even knew it was happening,” she wrote.
WTLV reported that the twins’ father went to wake up the children that morning and panicked because he could not find them. The twins were pronounced dead after they were found unresponsive in their toy box.
Jacksonville police said the 4-year-olds had no signs of trauma, according to WJXT.
The twins’ mother said she initially had the wooden chest tied shut because it had some toys in it, and her children already had so many other toys. She reportedly opened the chest a month ago while rearranging the twins’ room.
“They begged me to open it so they could play with the stuffed animals inside … I still made sure to have something tied on the latch so that the kids couldn’t lock each other in and so it wouldn’t latch shut if closed, unfortunately that didn’t prevent it from being airtight if closed,” she wrote.
According to WJXT, Jacksonville police said other people in the home were interviewed. No charges have been filed.
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