This is the grandmother from 18 month old child was killed in a ditch in Thessaloniki. "We had our baby here," she said.
Details of the incident
The grandmother of the 18-month-old boy who died tragically after falling into the sewer well behind his grandparents' house in Nea Malgara, Thessaloniki, breaks her silence and speaks exclusively to newsit.gr.
What my toddler grandmother said
"Every day the baby was in our house", says the old woman who is obviously shocked by the tragic incident and tries to collect her pieces. The ugly game that fate reserved for her family, the human mind can not fit. The few seconds that her 18-month-old grandson escaped her attention were enough for the irreparable evil to happen. With the pain painted on her face, she is still trying to realize what has happened. To find the same strength but also to give courage to her daughter and her son-in-law. Sitting in a chair in the yard of her house, she manages to say a few words to us. As she reveals to newsit.gr, she and her husband had taken care of her grandson daily, during the hours when her daughter was at work. "Every day the baby was here. We were looking at the child. My daughter when she worked, when she did not work "says the grandmother of the unfortunate boy to newsit.gr.
What a grandmother's cousin said
Next to her stands a cousin who from the first moment rushed to the family home in order to support her relatives. She describes how the tragic incident happened. "It was a tragic accident that happened suddenly. Nobody expected it. The child was constantly with his grandmother and grandfather "says the relative of the family to newsit.gr and adds adding:" Suddenly the child left in front of their eyes. It left their attention. He was always at the feet of his grandparents ".
The final acts of the tragedy will be played at the funeral that is expected to take place today or tomorrow. The incident that does not fit the human mind began to unfold shortly after twelve yesterday at noon. The child's mother had an appointment with a doctor. Her husband was missing on a business trip, so she took her 18-month-old boy to her paternal home in Nea Malgara to be cared for by her parents.
And other details about the incident
It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. Returning home, the 42-year-old mother saw her parents painted with anguish on their faces looking for the little boy. Terrified, she also started looking for the child inside the house, believing that he may have been hiding somewhere. Around two in the afternoon, she alerted the police. Men of the Hellenic Police rushed to Thrace Street. The investigations started immediately and the fire brigade was notified. The drain in the well behind the family home was not covered with a safety cap, but with two irons that were found broken. This fact raised the suspicions of the police and the firefighters. Immediately a private person was notified in order to pump the sewage and then you found the little boy dead. As everything shows, the child left the house and climbed on the irons that covered the well. Unofficially they retreated and the child fell into it.
The father of the child at the time of the incident was on a business trip outside the prefecture of Thessaloniki. The parents of the unfortunate child were recently married, while his mother has another 17-year-old child from her first marriage. For her part, the Thessaloniki prosecutor asked the police to hand over the findings of their investigation into the circumstances. under which he died tragically 18 month old child.
Source: newsit