It's something I have been holding close to my chest (sorry about the bad pun):
"Inquiry, cautions follow 2 deaths in Franklin; Children’s suffocation in hope chest deemed a ‘tragic accident’" by Peter Schworm and David Abel | Globe staff, January 14, 2014
The two Franklin children who suffocated Sunday in a sealed hope chest died of a “tragic accident,’’ preliminary autopsy results showed Tuesday, as a federal agency launched an investigation into the deaths.
During an apparent game of hide-and-seek, 7-year-old Sean Munroe and his 8-year-old sister Lexi climbed inside a wooden storage chest that automatically latched shut when closed and could not be opened from the inside. The chest, determined by investigators to have been made in 1939, was part of a 1996 recall of 12 million such chests made by Lane Furniture of Virginia after reports of at least six children suffocating inside….
This is a tragedy, yes, but more kids die from hunger and various other things across this country every day. It's not splashed all over the front page.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission also announced Tuesday that it had opened a formal investigation into the children’s deaths….
The hope then faded, sorry.
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Also see: Two children die in hope chest
UPDATE: Children who died in hope chest are remembered
Time to let go.
