Friday, November 4, 2011

Oh dear Three-year-old survives on cheese and leftover lasagne as she fends for herself for two days after mother dies.


Three-year-old Shylah Silbery had to fend for herself for two days after her mother died unexpectedly in their home in New Zealand
A three-year-old girl survived for two days on eating cheese and leftover lasagne after her mother died suddenly leaving her locked in her home.
Shylah Silbery, from Wellington, New Zealand, also hugged her favourite toy - a teddy bear named Possum - as she waited alone in the house near her mother's body.
She was rescued when 28-year-old Lauren Silbery's relatives alerted the authorities when they had not heard from her for two days.
Police who went to the property managed to coax Shylah to drag a coffee table to the door so she could climb up and unlock it.
She told them: 'Mummy won't wake up.'
Lauren was found face down next to her bed. Her daughter had been able to drink milk and feed herself with whatever she could find in the fridge.
Shylah spent several days in hospital recovering from dehydration and urine burns before attending her mother's funeral.
The child's uncle Pete Silbery, 24, said: 'I can only imagine her in there for that long, trying to wake Mum up.'
'She's doing okay now. She's still bubbly. When we lowered the coffin into the grave at the cemetery, though, she pointed at it and said, "Mummy's in there". It was pretty heartbreaking.'
Mr Silbery spoke every night to his sister, but he nad his mother grew so concerned after failing to reach her for two days they rang a friend who lived nearby.
The friend went to the house and saw Shylah inside but no sign of her mother.
The dead woman's mother, Heather, said: 'Lauren and I were very close - she would ring me every morning.
'One day I was in the garden and that afternoon at about four o'clock... her brother Peter and I said, 'Well, we haven't heard from Lauren'.

'So we got a friend to go around there and [the grandchild] had come to the cat door, but Lauren hadn't, so I dialled 111.'But she said she knew her daughter was dead the instant she heard that neighbours couldn;t contact her.
'Lauren wouldn't have done anything silly,' she said. 'She loved Shylah so much and was a devoted mum. But I knew exactly what had happened. It's a mother's instinct.'
She added: 'Her daughter was everything to her. She was the type of person who has a nice way of bringing people together.'
Officers saw the three-year-old inside the house and taught her how to open the door by getting her to stand on a coffee table.
Lauren Silbery collapsed and died in her home. Police have said they do not think her death was suspicious

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