Late Wednesday night the carpet the little girl had been laying upon bleeding, was rolled up and taken out of the home. The carpet will be buried with the 4-year-old's body as required by Orthodox Jewish tradition.
Just after 6 p.m. Wednesday night, neighbor Naama Jakobov saw the toddler's panicked father carry the child out of the home at 624 Ave. M to a waiting ambulance.
“I came outside saw the father holding the daughter,” Jakobov said. “His shirt was soaked with blood. And I just heard that unfortunately it was fatal.”
Brooklyn Tragedy: 4-Year-Old Killed By Falling TV
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Late Wednesday night the carpet the little girl had been laying upon bleeding, was rolled up and taken out of the home. The carpet will be buried with the 4-year-old’s body as required by Orthodox Jewish tradition.
Just after 6 p.m. Wednesday night, neighbor Naama Jakobov saw the toddler’s panicked father carry the child out of the home at 624 Ave. M to a waiting ambulance.
“I came outside saw the father holding the daughter,” Jakobov said. “His shirt was soaked with blood. And I just heard that unfortunately it was fatal.”
Police said the 4-year-old was crushed by a 27-inch television set. Her father was in the kitchen with the toddler’s twin brother when he heard a loud boom.
When the father ran into the living room he discovered the little girl bleeding profusely from the head. His 2-year-old daughter was unharmed.
Police said the TV-DVD set was sitting on a large wooden board that was placed upon but not connected to a small television cart.
Police said somehow the TV tipped over onto the child.
She was rushed to Lutheran Hospital, but could not be saved.
This is now the second child in Brooklyn this month to die after being crushed by a TV. On April 7, 3-year-old Alexander Williams was killed in his East New York apartment.
Wednesday’s tragedy has shocked the Ocean Parkway community and has devastated a family.
“He was just in a panic. Hysterical.” Jakobov said of the child’s father. “Just from observing them. They look like wonderful parents and it’s just a tragedy for the community.”
The NYPD is conducting an investigation, but they said the family has no record of domestic problems, and the death appears to be accidental.
concern parent
im not going to say whoever has a tv get rid of it !thats not the point and it;s not my business ill be realistic ! just one things please whoever has tv’s please make sure they are really secure !and do not put anything ontop of it !
chaya
to concern parent:
this doesnt mean that you cant have a tv at your house. thats not the point! the point is that it needed to be secured better and made that it stands tight!
anonymous
when u start blaming bad things that happen on someone’s "aveiros" you sound like a major misnagid.
flatbushchabadhopper
nebech – nice family – adorable girl – how sad –
gruntig
hamokom ynachem eschem bsoch shaar avolie tzion v’yerushlyem.
terribly sad story.
may they hear only good news from now on.
anonymous
tv is only bad when you use it in a wrong way!!!!!
Moshe Cohen
What a tragedy!
lets take this unfortunate story to learn that our lives are our childrens lives. We have to be protective of our children. Yesterday I saw a father walking with his seems to be 2yr old up albany to his car, all of a sudden the todler ran into the street to the other side of the car. I happened to be(hasgocha protious) carrying groceries to my car across the street when I saw in aninstant a speeding car coming down albany and a toddler in its way. I dropped my bags an it just the nick of time scooped the toddler out of the way of the approaching Car. needles to say the father was shocked and very thankful. However if the father would have held the kids hand this would have not happened. lets be extra careful with our children.!! Kids have a mind of their own they wander.
Yeka
When they say TV.. they aer talking about a video screen.. many of us have video screens or even computer screens..
it’s very important that the cords are behind the furniture and not accesable to small children.. just like not leaving the pot handle facing the outside of the stove.. and if it appears at all the the screen can fall off.. due to lack of space or low table.. they sell these cheap hatches that you can connect the screen to the table like they do in hotels..
hamokom ynachem eschem bsoch shaar avolie tzion v’yerushlyem. Very tragic!!
very sad
The Rebbe said many times that tragedies like these are brought into the communitty when there is fighting. the rebber said it when Leibel Kahan died and a year later when his first cousin Shuly Chitrik was killed in a traffic accident. The lesson is for us to stop fighting with each other and just get along.
anonymous
Just to help clarify the tv thing. It would sound really stupid for the reporters to say video machine anda not tv- being that to the seccular world those are both usually one and the same. maybe this family was just like the majority of crown heighters who have a video machine and not a tv. The kid could have been watching a nice Jewish movie.
rocks18@hotmail.com
to chaya : thats exactly what i wrote the point is not that you should have a tv or not is that its should be secure ! i myslef took a tv that was untop of my kids dresser and put it in a safer place !
and its not just with a tv with anything that can easily fall !! bookshelves ect…. and ps.. to anonymous ! saying to be more careful about the subject and to learn from someones tragedy doesnt make us misnagid ! that just makes us smart !!!!!!
Sara
I’m not familar with the particular halacha. Why did the carpet need to be buried with the girl?
OYYY!
Comments about why the tragedy happened (tv, machlokes etc….) dont belong under this story headline.
The only comments that should be made are wishing the family ONLY SIMCHAS in the future.
HAMOKOM YENACHEM ESCHEM B SOCH SHAAR AVOELEI TZION B YERUSHALAYIM!
Itzik_s
I think it was because the carpet was L"A covered with her blood.
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to Sara:
Without being too graphic, when a person passes away the halacha is that all parts of the body must be buried with the person. If Chas Vesholom there is blood anywhere it must be buried too.
(B"H you have not been in a position to have to know such things)
Boruch Dayan Haemes.
ATT: Very Sad
I dont think its up to you to decide why hashem is sending tragedy’s to specific people or communities!! Just worry about yourself
Sara
Thank you "Wrote" for explaining the halacha. Baruch Dayan Haemes.
YMG
May HaShem Comfort the family.