A devastated mother who was horrified to discover the lifeless bodies of her two four-year-old twins in a small toy box where the family kept soft toys begged her parents to get rid of similar furnishings after they suffocated.
“Few people will know the pain of losing two children at the same time and in a senseless way […] “Few people will experience the feeling of not crying in pain EVERY SECOND until they drop in pain,” lamented the twins’ mother, Sadie Myers of Jacksonville, Florida, in a post on Facebook on Monday.
With a heavy heart, the mother of Aurora and Kellan, two four-year-old twins and two slightly older boys, decided to tell about the nightmare she has been experiencing since last Friday, hoping that her statement will deter other parents from making the same mistake , several media outlets reported.
The day before, her husband had put the children to bed, and they were all sound asleep when their mother returned from work.
However, the twins, who were used to waking up in the middle of the night to play a little with their toys before falling asleep outside of their bed, would have chosen a small wooden toy box full of stuffed animals to end their night.
“What I didn’t know, and I’m sure many others didn’t know either, is that most wooden toy boxes are airtight when closed […] While they were sleeping, all huddled together, they were slowly running out of oxygen,” the mother continued in her message.
It was only early in the morning that the panicked parents realized that their two daughters were no longer in their bed, so they “turned the house upside down and shouted their names in the street” until one of their boys told them he just found her “asleep in the toy box,” the release states.
“I ran to investigate and within seconds I knew something was wrong. […] This doesn’t make sense to me and never will… I hope knowing this helps you in some way and I hope if you have a toy box like this you will destroy it immediately,” emphasized Sadie Myers on Facebook .
In order to ease the grief of both parents, a crowdfunding campaign was launched by relatives.