OXNARD : Baby Girl Dies in Water-Filled Bucket
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An 11-month-old Oxnard girl died early Wednesday after she apparently fell into a pail of water that had been used to mop the floor and drowned, police said.
Laura Albor was pronounced dead at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles at 3 a.m., a hospital spokeswoman said.
The accident occurred about 11 a.m. Tuesday while Laura’s aunt, Aurora Mendez, 21, was baby-sitting, police said. Laura’s mother, Graciela Albor, was shopping at the time, Oxnard police said. Mendez told police that she went into the bedroom for a few minutes, leaving Laura unattended in the living room. When she came out of the bedroom, Mendez said, she found Laura headfirst in a five-gallon plastic bucket half full of water in the kitchen, police said. The water had a high concentration of bleach in it, police said.
Laura, who was not breathing, was taken to St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard and then transferred to Childrens Hospital, police said.
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