Boynton Beach, Florida, police said a 3-year-old girl became trapped in a toy kitchen and died four days later.<\/p>\n
The toy kitchen included a sink, a stove and two little cabinets.<\/p>\n
A GoFundMe identifies the little girl as Briella Holmes, saying on July 23, Briella and her brother were at a babysitter\u2019s home in the Meadows of Boynton Beach.<\/p>\n
Police said the babysitter was out, and her spouse was upstairs, periodically checking on the children playing downstairs.<\/p>\n
Briella\u2019s sibling told police toys fell inside the kitchen, and Briella got stuck trying to reach them.<\/p>\n
The spouse found her with her head stuck and freed her and began life-saving measures. Briella died four days later.<\/p>\n
The medical examiner confirmed to CBS 12 News in West Palm Beach that the girl died from \u201cprobable positional asphyxia,\u201d meaning she became trapped in a position that kept her from breathing. Her death was ruled an accident.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, CBS 12 News was asking police for more information about the playset. On Wednesday, police released a photo of the product, which they said was purchased secondhand on Facebook Marketplace.<\/p>\n
The kitchen set has no brand or model markings, but a nearly identical \u201ccountry living kitchen\u201d was found online.<\/p>\n
Side-by-side, the set involved in the accident appears to be missing its toy sink, leaving a round opening on top. There are also openings along the bottom with toys visible on the ground.<\/p>\n
Police haven\u2019t said where Briella became trapped, how long she was stuck or whether this case has been sent to prosecutors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boynton Beach, Florida, police said a 3-year-old girl became trapped in a toy kitchen and died four days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-364229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}