Two-year-old girl dies in Tijuana house adapted as a nursery

Nail two year old daughter died in one house used to take care of children in Tijuana, Baja California.

According to the newspaper The impartial, The minor, identified as mine, was in the house on Azul Street, in the Hacienda de las Delicias estate.

Because their The parents work very long hours, she was in charge of this house and she was there last Monday evening. It was around 11:00 p.m. when the Tijuana firefighters were contacted for an emergency, so they came out to try and help the little girl.

But when they reached the destination Mia was unconscious in one of the bedrooms, and after examining her, paramedics confirmed that the minor was already dead.. After a few minutes, the municipal police arrived and after some neighbors explained that the house was being used as a crèche, the presence of elements of civil protection was requested.

Sergio Alejandro Iglesias Espinoza, deputy director of municipal civil protection, explained that the home was monitored and that he did not have the documents or an appropriate space to take care of the minors.

“We made one inspection eyepiece housing, which did not present any safety measures for childcare, did not have any type of license, several anomalies were observed, there was even about cuetes in the room where the lifeless miner was, ”revealed Iglesias Espinoza.

In a media interview, one of the residents of the house, Lucero Cante, explained what had happened. According to her tally, it was her friend named Erika who had been tasked with looking after the little girl for four months, but neither knew of an illness or anything similar.

“She’s been taking care of herself for months, but what the parents told us is that the girl was he stopped breathing and the paramedics told us it was probably, but the parents never mentioned it before, that he suffered from such discomfort, ”Cante recalls.

But on Monday, they noticed that the girl was very calm during the day, which seemed very unusual, as Mía was very restless.

“This girl cried a lot, and not yesterday she was very stillAlso sad, I feel that I was already sick, ”she added.

This worried Erika and, since she hadn’t cried, she could tell that the child was not breathing. Cante said the woman went to see the girl, and when she realized what had happened, she was “shocked”. “I immediately spoke to the emergency room,” Cante said.

According to early versions, the body of the baby did not show signs of abuse. However, it will be the forensic service that will determine the cause of Mía’s death.

Last September, Unicef ​​revealed that in Mexico the COVID-19 crisis has placed additional pressure on households with children, especially those with the lowest incomes. Already existing gaps in health, education and poverty have widened, according to survey data.

After the presentation of the Survey on monitoring the effects of COVID-19 on the well-being of girls, boys and adolescents (Encovid19), Catalina Gómez, head of social policy at Unicef ​​Mexico, spoke declared EFE that the data in this document is “relevant” because make visible the effects of the pandemic on families with children in Mexico.

He pointed out that families feel more under pressure due to the lower amount of resources they are receiving due to the pandemic, resulting in less food security and greater stress.

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