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Three Children Climb Into a Freezer While Mom Is in Bathroom. When She Found Them, They’d Stopped Breathing

As WGFL reports, on Sunday evening, three children, aged 1, 4, and 6, were playing outside of their home in Live Oak, Florida. The mother of the 4-year-old was watching the trio as they bounced on the trampoline and played with toys in the yard.

Two families lived in the home — the mom with her 4-year-old daughter and her friend, and the grandmother (and legal guardian) of the 6-year-old boy and his 1-year-old sister.

According to the Tallahassee Democrat, at some point, the mom went inside to use the bathroom. Suwannee County Sheriff Sam St. John told the Democrat that “she was gone for 10 or 15 minutes; when she came back they were gone.” Read the full story here ▶