Police: Mike Tyson's daughter on life support

[Bozita]

Source: AP

Police: Mike Tyson's daughter on life support
ASSOCIATED PRESS • MAY 25, 2009


PHOENIX -- Police in Phoenix say boxer Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter is on life support after she was found with her neck on a treadmill cable.

Police Sgt. Andy Hill said the "tragic accident" happened Monday morning at Tyson's home when the girl's 7-year-old brother found her on a treadmill with her neck on a cable attached to the exercise machine.

The boy told the girl's mother from another room. She took the girl off the cable, called 911 and tried to revive her.

Hill said the girl is now in "extremely critical condition" and on life support.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20090525/ENT07/90525045/Police++Mike+Tyson+s+daughter+on+life+support+

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Oh, my God. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.

Prayers and healing vibes to that baby.

[Raine]

2. What an awful thing to happen

much sympathy to the family.

[Ohio Joe]

3. Poor kid

I hope she is ok.

[Lint Head]

4. Poor child. Someone was not watching this baby closely enough.

I have three children and we had to be watch them every waking moment or at least have them in a situation where they could be monitored. Children that young know no fear. They will dart out of your sight in seconds.
I turned my back in a store once and when I turned around my child was gone. Luckily she was not snatched but just wandered off an aisle away. :dem:

[jobycom]

9. No way to know that.

Not without more details. My kid used to get when we were asleep. Short of going Graywarrior Duck on a kid, they will get away. You just watch constantly and live in terror.

Christ, what a thing to live with. The reports sound grim. I hope they are exaggerated.

[NoodleyAppendage]

15. You'd better watch it or you'll get a chorus of people responding defending lax observation of kids.

I responded likewise to a recent story about a kid in MO. who wandered away from his mobile home while Mom was on the phone and Dad was reportedly asleep.

Sadly there are many around here (most without kids, I suspect) who are hot to castigate anyone who dares to suggest that parents bear some responsibility for such accidents.

J

[hlthe2b]

19. this is a horrible tragedy... sometimes parents are negligent

and sometimes there are just plain horrendous accidents.... Short of handcuffing toddlers to the bed, one can not be in total control of their actions 24/7... I remember a cousin, who at the age of 2 1/2 got up one Saturday morning while his parents slept and decided to chew on a power cord. It didn't kill him, but it surely did do damage to his mouth and face... There are so many more safety features available now, but still, things happen.

I know this child will likely not make it-- from the reports of her being on life support. I wish peace for the family... Such a tremendous tragedy.

[Montauk6]

24. You got that right: at one point, it seemed to be "not MY child"...

These days it seems, more and more, "not MY parenting."

But I too reserve judgement until more facts are released.

[LostinVA]

5. Do they mean the safety cord -- how horrible

She must have got entangled and lost her balance.

[DRoseDARs]

17. I've been in the fitness industry for 10 yrs and this infuriates me.

I keep telling people not to wrap that safety cord up, to clip the one end to their damn shirt. But of course the assholes never listen. It's there for a reason, shit-for-brains.

[JerseygirlCT]

26. But a child wouldn't know that

I did forget once, and got quite a ride across the room for my stupidity.

My kids are not allowed on my treadmill, period. (Well the adult one now is...) It's not a toy, and having been tossed once myself, I can see all the other awful things that could happen to someone too young and/or too small to safely use it.

[DRoseDARs]

30. Which brings us back to "Who was watching the child?"

Doesn't matter what the little girl knew or didn't, that's the responsibility of whoever was supposed to be watching her. And now she's dead.

[JerseygirlCT]

31. Yeah.

Really, you have to watch them every second. Or at the very least have a safe space where they can be contained and entertained that is childproofed to the max.

We had gates up all over the place with my youngest! (The oldest was the sort of guy who if you raised an eyebrow and said "no!" once - he'd never try that thing again! Too easy.)

It's a horrible ending to a horrible accident.

[MadMaddie]

6. I hope that she survives.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. Everything is dangerous

to a kid that little.

I just flashed on Eric Clapton's little boy who fell from a window.

Jesus, this is just horrible. This isn't something she'll recover from, I fear.

But, maybe she'll be an organ donor, giving life to some other little kids.

What a nightmare.

They're into everything, and they move so damn fast.....................................

[canetoad]

20. Just today in Queensland

the five year old daughter of a policeman tripped over the open door of the dishwasher and was impaled on a knife in the cutlery rack. Fortunately she will be OK.

Such mundane accidents. Then I think of we kids sitting on the girders under a bridge, dropping rocks into the vats of molten iron on trains, coming from the steelworks. No one ever fell in. (That I know of)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. Jesus ............

There are things out there that can't ever be foreseen.

You did that with the rocks? Sure, kids can have fun with the strangest things. You'd have noticed if someone fell in. I bet.

I don't recall doing anything like that when we were kids, but, hey, who remembers?

And there you are.

My computer is in excellent health, and the crop has come in just fine.

I hope all is well with you. Yes?

[canetoad]

22. Yep, yep...

Glad about the comp. The computer group is such a blast and often able to collaboratively find a solution with everyone putting in their .002 cents worth.

As a kid, lived in a village in England, coupla miles from a steel town. We would hike over the spoil heaps to spend a day capering around over molten metal lol. We were SO poor, we didn't have a dishwasher to trip over....

[superconnected]

29. That knife should have been pointed down. ewww. Poor kid. Glad she'll be okay.

That's worse that what my grandma used to do - she'd stick sharp knives in the dishwater with the rest of the dishes so you could just run into them underwater when feeling for other dishes when you volunteered to help her. I yelled at her many times for it.

[NashVegas]

28. Yeah, It's Horrible

And unless one has some kind of idea of how well a child in this kind of story is *normally* supervised, it's heartless to criticize.

[d_b]

8. I'm watching the documentary on him right now

Oh i hope she's alright and pulls through

[elleng]

10. Does/did it discuss his several wives and children?

There must be something about him. He was married to an MD here in DC, and had at least one daughter with her. She attended my daughters school.

[qanda]

11. Is that Steele's sister?

I believe he was married, at one time or another, to Michael Steele's sister. I feel terrible about his kid. No one deserves to go through something like that. I hope she pulls through.

[elleng]

13. Don't know; will check.

Her name is Monica.

[elleng]

18. Yes:

In Manhattan at a glitzy gathering to hype the movie's New York release, a diverse group that included Joe Frazier, Ice-T, Christopher Walken, and Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, whose sister Monica Turner is one of Tyson's former wives, showed their support.

http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-article/6764/mike-tyson-man-myth-movie/

[aquart]

12. You think the place is childproof and then something you never thought of...

[rainbow4321]

14. Window blind string cords

Are another that scare the hell out of me.
When my daughter was really little I remember her getting tangled up in one. Still gives me the shivers to think of the "what if's". I know that I never gave those things a second thought before that..they just hung there. Afterwards I always tucked them up in the blinds out of reach of inquiring little hands.

[depakid]

23. Windows period

Molalla boy's death illustrates danger to children from windows

Paramedics "worked and worked" on a 4-year-old boy who tumbled out of a window and fell headfirst on the concrete 20 feet below, a police spokesman said. But "he didn't have a chance," said Scott Douglas, spokesman for the Molalla Police Department.

The boy died Saturday night while playing with other children during a housewarming party at the family's new home. Police would not release his name. The death is a sad reminder of the dangers that upper-story windows pose for small children, especially in spring and summer when people open their houses to let in the breeze.

Nicole DeIorio, an emergency room doctor at OHSU Hospital, said a warm spell several weeks ago marked the first window-fall patients of the season. The injuries were wide-ranging -- from one child who suffered a bad head injury to another who was unscathed. In the latter case, the parents thought their child was still upstairs. "Then the kid was suddenly knocking on the front door," DeIorio said. "...People don't think it could happen to their child, but it really is common in the summer in Portland."

Safety experts recommend keeping furniture away from windows and making sure there's no furniture available that children can easily move next to a window. "Because toddlers are pretty creative -- if they have to move a chair to get to the window, they'll do it," said William Lennarz, director of pediatric emergency medicine at Legacy Emanuel Children's Hospital.

Experts also recommend installing safety devices, such as child-safe screens or window guards, which resemble a baby gate that fits over the window.

More: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/molalla_boys_death_illustrates.html

[JerseygirlCT]

27. Yeah, we had a gate on the window...

just thinking about the what ifs scared me.

[elleng]

16. Right.

Don't eat the Daisies.

[Javaman]

25. Soylnet Green is daisies!!! nt