Tragedy in Kos: Baby drowned from a boiled potato – Mother’s first reactions – Newsbomb – News

The local community in Kos has been left speechless, but public opinion has also been united due to the death of the one-year-old infant. According to the information so far, the infant died of suffocation while eating boiled potatoes. At the same time, his parents are being detained at the island’s police station, while tomorrow, Monday 22/4, they are expected to appear before the prosecutor on the charge of fatally exposing a minor to danger.

It all started yesterday, Saturday 4/20, shortly before 8:00 p.m. when the mother realized that the infant was unconscious and called the EMS. The ambulance arrived at 8:25 and seven minutes later, the infant was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead at a quarter past nine.

“When the emergency doctor came, she was shouting for someone to bring a defibrillator. The mom is seven months pregnant, what she was saying is that she had fed the baby potato chips and put her to bed and she didn’t know exactly what happened,” said an eyewitness.

At the same time, a local media journalist reported that she met the mother at the island’s hospital and shared the communication she had with her. According to the journalist, the infant’s mother told her in shock that “my child is dead”.

The doctors at the Kos hospital performed CPR on the infant for some time, but this did not prove to be life-saving.

What did the forensic examination show?

The medical examiner who examined the infant in Rhodes found no traces of sexual abuse. He judged that death came from suffocation due to undigested food and that the abrasions, which this brought, probably came from previous blows.

Indeed, the parents who are in custody tried to explain the marks the infant had on his body by pointing out that they were due to minor accidents and hits from his two-year-old brother.

The father had been arrested for pornography in the past

What alarmed the authorities is that the father of the infant has been accused and arrested in the past for pornography. For this reason, the authorities searched the father’s cell phone and computer.

The investigation so far has shown that child pornography searches were found on his mobile phone.

The parents to the prosecutor

Tomorrow, Monday 22/4, the infant’s parents are expected to appear before the prosecutor on the charge of fatally exposing a minor to danger. The 21-year-old father and 20-year-old mother had gone to Kos to work ahead of the summer tourist season. In fact, the mother is 7 months pregnant.

According to information, the infant’s other sibling will also be examined as well as the environment in which the family lived, in order to check the suitability of an infant.

“We saw her with bruises”

Neighbors of the couple, speaking to MEGA, report that they had seen the 20-year-old mother beaten several times, with the testimonies of the couple’s fights being numerous.

“Her husband, the husband, was abusing her. Sometimes we had seen her in the neighborhood with some bruises herself, marks which she did not justify”, said an eyewitness.

“They had fights, I had seen the girl beaten several times. Now, whether he hit her or not, I don’t know. I didn’t see them together all the time. I saw more of the girl,” said a neighbor of the couple.

The father, 21 years old and the mother of the unfortunate infant are charged with exposure of a minor resulting in death and on Monday they will cross the threshold of the prosecutor.