A 10-month-old baby girl drowned in the bath after a plastic toy got stuck over the plug hole, an inquest heard. Sara Moosa was in the bath with her two brothers when the tragedy happened.
She drowned in just five inches of water after the toy blocked the plug hole and caused the bath to fill. An inquest at Leicester Town Hall heard how Sara's mother had put her in the bath with her two brothers, who are twins, and had the tap running without the plug in while she bathed them. READ MORE: 'It's absolutely ridiculous...' staff fuming after company tells them to move to Romania or risk losing their job One of the boys asked for his shark toy and his mother went to fetch it, Leicestershire Live reports.
But when she returned, little Sara was lying on her side in the bath with her face under the water. In a statement from the family to the inquest, Sara was described as a "smiling and happy" little girl.
She was pronounced dead at Leicester Royal Infirmary on August 14 last year. A post-mortem examination was carried out and concluded she had died from drowning.
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