Toddler Dies After Day Care Employee Sits on Bean Bag Chair He Was Playing Under Leonardo Sanchez would have been 2 on Sept. 17. A grieving mother is seeking answers after her 1-year-old child died under a bean bag chair when a day care employee sat on it while reading to the other children. Little Leonardo “Leo” Sanchez would have turned 2 on September 17. Instead, his Utah family will bury him on that day, they said. Read: 600 Marijuana Plants Discovered Growing Behind Connecticut Day Care: Cops “In my mind, my child is under your care. He suffocated under a bean bag. How does a 2-year-old, not even 2 yet, how does he get stuck under a bean bag? I don’t know what,” mother Danielle Sanchez told KSTU-TV. “He was a cute bundle of joy. He brought a lot of love,” the mom said. According to police, Leo was underneath the bean bag when an unidentified worker sat down to read a book. The child suffocated, authorities said. Police said they are examining video footage from inside the facility.
The employee has not been charged. “It just baffles me, makes me wonder. She must not have felt him, she must not have heard him,” the boy’s mother said. The West Jordan Child Center issued a statement, saying “We regret deeply the tragic death of a young toddler at our day care facility. No words adequately describe the depth of the sorrow we feel. “And, of course, we do not pretend to understand how devastating this is for the family. We know the family well, we grieve with them, and we pray that God will provide them the comfort and peace they inevitably will need.” Read: Day Care Center Shuttered After 3-Month-Old Died On Her Mother's First Day Back at Work According to the Utah Office of Children’s Licensing, the day care has been cited twice in the past five years, the station reported. One citation was for lack of supervision in the patio area. The other was for a fence hole that was big enough for a child to slip through. The licensing office is also investigating the boy’s death.
A GoFundMe page has been established for the family. Leo’s funeral will be open to the public. A time and location has not yet been determined. Watch: Crying Toddler Rescued After Day Care Left Her Alone, Thought she Was A DollRead more on PRF CA, East Palo Alto Go to SPRIDD collection Go to Fabric ottomansJaxx 4' Microsuede Lounger Giant Bean Bag Chair Big, soft and supportive Filled with shredded furniture-grade foam Cover is removable and machine washable Great for bedrooms & play roomsNEWSToddler suffocates beneath bean bag that daycare employee unknowingly sits on A young boy suffocated after he crawled underneath a bean bag chair at a daycare center and was subsequently sat on by an employee. A young boy suffocated after he crawled underneath a bean bag chair at a daycare center Thursday and was subsequently sat on by an employee.Police confirmed Friday the child suffocated after crawling under the bean bag chair, which an employee then sat on without realizing the boy was there.
A GoFundMe page created on behalf of the victim's family identifies the boy as Leonardo Sanchez, and family says the boy would have turned 2 years old later this month.Danielle Sanchez, Leonardo's mother, says she doesn't understand how the daycare could have lost track of her son and allowed this to happen. She said they hope to view the surveillance footage from the center soon.Sanchez said she isn't personally upset with the employee who sat on the chair, but she said the day care should have done more to keep track of the children under their care. KSTU reports that the incident occurred sometime Thursday at West Jordan Child Center. The management at the center released the following statement Friday:"We regret deeply the tragic death of a young toddler at our daycare facility. No words adequately describe the depth of the sorrow we feel. And, of course, we do not pretend to understand how devastating this is for the family. We know the family well, we grieve with them, and we pray that God will provide them the comfort and peace they inevitably will need."
The fundraiser page states the boy's parents and three siblings "are heartbroken by the loss of their handsome, sweet baby boy."While she was a Warren Township High School student, Erica Buschick went out of her way to help a wheelchair-bound student get from class to class, her father Eric said.She also spent her summers working for the Gurnee Park District, helping handicapped children, her father said. "That was her passion," Eric Buschick said.That passion remained strong in the fall when she went off to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She enrolled as a special education major and joined the school's chapter of Best Buddies, a volunteer organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The group's mission of inclusion really appealed to her, according to Macy Fraylick, a Miami University senior and the president of the 300-member chapter.Attending Miami was her dream, her father said, and she wanted to one day become a teacher so she could work professionally with those less fortunate.
But Buschick's dreams were cut short when she was found dead in her Morris Hall dorm room on Jan. 20.A Miami University Police Department report and a 911 call from her roommate indicate Buschick, 18, spent the previous evening drinking with friends, had fallen multiple times and had to be helped back to her room. The Butler County Coroner's Office has not released a toxicology report, but Miami University President Greg Crawford acknowledged in a statement to the university community the police report's suggestion that "alcohol contributed to this tragedy.""You have no idea how many questions I have about that night," Eric Buschick said. Erica Buschick had just returned to Miami University after winter break, arriving at about 5 p.m. on Jan. 19, according to the police report. She and her roommate began drinking at about 10 p.m., consuming approximately two bottles of champagne between them, the report said. They then filled a water bottle about halfway with vodka and went to an off-campus apartment to "pregame," a term to describe drinking before going out to a bar or party.
Buschick continued drinking at the apartment, according to the report. She first fell as the group was leaving to walk to a bar, the report says, and was too drunk to enter the bar when she arrived. She eventually reunited with her roommate, and they called a taxi to take them back to Morris Hall.The taxi driver told police Buschick fell again while exiting the taxi at Morris Hall and that her roommate asked him to help get Buschick back into her room. The driver said in a written statement that the roommate asked him not to call anyone because the girls were worried about getting in trouble. The driver helped Buschick back into her room and was afraid she would fall down and hit her head, so he laid her down on her left side on a bean bag chair, according to the report.When the roommate awoke the next morning, Buschick hadn't moved.Eric Buschick had been in Las Vegas for business. He got a call about his daughter as he was driving home from the airport."It's something that everyone says, 'Time will cure,'" Buschick said.
"But it's not going to cure it."He said he is trying to "work with the university right now to correct, to make sure that this never happens again." "I don't blame anybody," Eric Buschick said. "I'm just saying, if certain processes were in place, things would be different."His daughter was three minutes from a hospital, he said.Buschick's roommate told police that Buschick brought some alcohol from home."I'm not going to lie. I have liquor at my house," Eric Buschick said. "And if she took liquor out of my house, that would have been of her own accord."Police also found an expired Missouri driver's license for a 23-year-old woman in Buschick's possession during the investigation, according to the report.Crawford, the university president, said in his statement that he will undertake a "holistic assessment" of the school's effort to curb high-risk alcohol consumption."She was my baby girl," Eric Buschick said.He described his daughter as a fun-loving girl who enjoyed traveling and working out.
She was "very confident, but very passionate and very kind to others," he said, and she "really did what she wanted to do, whether you were going to like that or not."She was not a follower," Eric Buschick said. "She was a leader."Clayton Neighbors, a professor and director of the Social Influences and Health Behaviors Lab at the University of Houston, has been studying excessive drinking among college populations for 20 years. He said many college students "don't understand how much they're drinking or what the consequences are for getting their blood-alcohol concentrations (BACs) up beyond a reasonable point, and how easy it is to do that, depending on what you're drinking." Neighbors said "pregaming" carries "really heavy risk," especially if students drink hard liquor rather than beer. And gender plays a role, as well, he said."Women who don't weigh very much, their BACs can ramp up in a short amount of time," Neighbors said. "More than men, because their body concentration is different.
So they would get higher BACs, even if they're the same weight as guys."Neighbors said an average 18-year-old female weighing between 125 and 130 pounds would reach an estimated BAC of .39, which would be potentially fatal, by drinking 12 standard drinks in three hours. That would be 18 ounces of 80-proof vodka, or about half of a 750-milliliter bottle, he said.Eric Buschick said he "can't even explain" the toll his daughter's death has taken on his family. He and his wife, Donna, have two other daughters, ages 22 and 20."You can't comprehend a girl, 18 years old, who's no longer with us," he said.Erica Buschick knew she wanted to go into special education after participating in P.E. Leaders both semesters her senior year, said Gail Triveline, her guidance counselor at Warren Township High. The program paired one regular education student with one special education student for the entire gym period."(It) gave her that feeling of supporting others," Triveline said. "It was what made her realize she was going into the right field.