The mother of a little boy who died after falling out an upstairs window said she had left him for just four minutes
The two-year-old was discovered lying in the street after the horror fall from a house in Liverpool just after 4pm on Saturday, November 17.
He was rushed to Alder Hey hospital by ambulance and was initially described by police as being in "a critical condition".
Last night, his family made the heartbreaking decision to turn off his life support, reports the Liverpool Echo.
His heartbroken mum – who does not want to be named – today spoke of her agony.
She had been visiting a friend with her son, who was playing with another two-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl at the property.
She said: "My friend asked me to look after the kids while she went to Asda and in that time the front door was locked.
"We are not drug taking people or alcoholics – we live respectable lives and it’s a nice house.
"I went upstairs with another two-year-old who my son has known for a year and half nearly. There were two two-year-olds playing in a toy room upstairs."
She explained that the family living at the home had previously raised concerns that the window in the toy room was broken and needed to be fixed.
She added: "The children play in there but the lock needed to be fixed. I didn’t know this. My son got on a rocking horse.
"The eight-year-old was downstairs building a gingerbread house. She shouted for me to come and hold the roof for her. In those three to four minutes I thought the two children were left in a safe environment in the toy room.
"What I didn’t know was the lock on the window was broken."
The boy’s mum said that when she left the two children playing upstairs the window was shut tight.
She described what happened as a "catastrophic accident" and blamed a problem with the lock on the window which she was unaware of.
A spokesman for Merseyside Police confirmed the tragic news of the boy’s death this morning.
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