Girl, 3, dies of hypothermia after 'mother and boyfriend locked her in freezing bedroom for wetting (and the mother was a teacher,)

Girl, 3, dies of hypothermia after 'mother and boyfriend locked her in freezing bedroom for wetting


Source: The Daily Mail (UK)

By Associated Press

Last updated at 9:11 PM on 4th March 2012



A three-year-old girl from America's northernmost community died and
her younger sister suffered hypothermia after their mother and the
mother's boyfriend left them in a locked bedroom with a window open to a
temperature of minus 30 degrees to air out the room because the girls
wet their beds, authorities said.



The mother, 28-year-old elementary teacher Esther G. Edwards-Gust,
was apparently on the lam Saturday, a day after she and 29-year-old
Richard Tilden Jr. were indicted in the child's death. Tilden was in
custody.



The couple shared a home with Edwards-Gust's 1- and 3-year-old daughters in the Inupiat Eskimo community of Barrow.



Police say the two girls last month were trapped overnight in their
bedroom with a window open to temperatures that dropped to 30 degrees
below zero. Both children were diagnosed with extreme hypothermia and
flown to an Anchorage hospital, where the three-year-old died.





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