WARNING : Distressing content The Christchurch parents of a toddler who died of an accidental hanging, when he became caught in the cord of his bedroom roller blind, are pleading for better safety messaging about the danger in New Zealand . They had put their three-year-old son down for a nap earlier this year, and discovered him unresponsive when they went to wake him up, a NZ coroner’s findings released on Monday said. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today The family, whose identities have been suppressed by the court, had been at the beach, and returned home for some lunch before the toddler’s regular afternoon nap, during which the father said his son could be heard “babbling away”, on January 20.
But when the father went to collect his son from the bedroom about 4pm, he was not in his bed. Coroner Heather McKenzie’s findings said: “He found (the boy) in front of the curtain with a cord wrapped around the front of his neck.” The boy’s father carried him to his mother, and the pair began to perform CPR and call emergency services, which were unable to revive the boy when they arrived five minutes later.
“It appears to me on the available evidence that (the boy) was playing in or otherwise near the blind, the cord became wrapped around the front of his neck, and he was unable to extricate himself,” McKenzie said. “I do not know how long he had been there before (his father) discovered him. “In all of these circumstances, I find that (his) .