Monday, April 17, 2017

Baby girl left covered in nasty cuts after glass shower screen EXPLODED during her evening bath

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'CUT TO SHREDS'

Stacey Richards is warning people of the dangers of glass screens

A BABY girl was “cut to shreds” in a bath-time horror when a glass shower screen suddenly exploded.

Mum Stacey Richards was given her one-year-old daughter her normal evening bath when the shower screen exploded which sounded “like a gun shot”.

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Stacey Richards (right) was giving one-year-old Elsiee-Maie (left) her normal evening bath when the shower screen exploded
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Stacey described the sound of the glass shattering as being “like a gun shot”
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Elsiee-Maie suffered a number of cuts to her leg as a result of the acccident

Shards of glass rained down on Stacey’s daughter, Elsiee-Maie.

The child was covered in cuts as a result and the bathroom floor was drowned in glass.

Stacey, 24, said: “Last night I was giving Elsiee-Maie a bath as normal, she was sat there babbling away.

“Within a split second, it was like someone had fired a gun at the side of us, there was glass everywhere.

“Our glass shower screen had spontaneously exploded, never in my life have I moved so fast as I tried to shield her from being hurt.

“Elsiee-Maie’s dad came running in and grabbed her from me as I was shaking so much.

“My one-year-old was cut to shreds in what I can only explain as a freak incident. Elsiee-Maie was screaming, it was horrible and there was no warning.”

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The couple, of Prestatyn, North Wales, live in a rented home and warned people to check.

Stacey is waiting for her landlord to find receipts for the two-year-old shower screen to check the manufacturer.

Her daughter is recovering from a dozen cuts to her body with one on her head and some on her back, hands, arms and legs.

Stacey added: “It could have been a lot worse.”

Following what happened, Stacey is now warning of the dangers of shower screens and urging other parents to check theirs is not compromised or cracked.

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Picture shows a cut in Elsie-Maie’s head
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Stacey, pictured with Elsiee-Maie, warning of the dangers of shower screens and urging other parents to check theirs is not compromised or cracked
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Stacey said her daughter’s injuries, pictured, could have been a “lot worse”

She said: “There was nothing wrong with our shower screen, it wasn’t cracked or chipped and yet this still happened.

“From what I’ve been reading up on the internet, it’s a quite common fault with these kind of shower screens, so why are they allowed to still be used is beyond me.

“I keep thinking what if Elsieè-Maie had been stood on the outside of the bath? It could have been a lot worse, it doesn’t bear thinking about.

“When I tucked her up in bed last night, she was very unsettled and kept on waking up crying.

“I just wanted to make people aware as I would hate for another baby to go through this.”

One Lidl shopper was left horrified after choking on a shard of broken glass “in a tin of baked beans”.

Stephen McLury, who has a feeding tube, began coughing and choking soon after tucking into his beans dinner.


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