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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 | Volume 31 No. 76
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Toddler Sean Garratt died on Sept. 10, two days after a large TV fell on the boy in his Lower Sahali home. Mom C.J. Cantin and sister Elizabeth are left to pick up the pieces. Cantin said she wants parents to know their world can change in the blink of an eye.
A Kamloops mother is issuing a warning to parents after her oneyear-old son died in an accident at home earlier this month. Sean Garratt, who would have turned two in November, died after a TV fell on him on Sept. 8 while he climbed a dresser, according to his mother, C.J. Cantin. The unconscious toddler was airlifted to B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver following the accident and was taken off life support on Sept. 10. “I think more people need to be open to what can happen in the blink of an eye,” Cantin told KTW. “More people need to be aware of the dangers in their home.” Cantin, a 24-year-old single mother, described every parent’s worst nightmare. She said it happened at about 6:30 a.m. in her Lower Sahali apartment. “I woke up to a loud thud and my daughter screaming for me — ‘Mommy, mommy, Sean fell down,’” Cantin said.
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“I rushed into the room and the TV was on his head. I removed the TV and called 911.” Cantin said her son was still conscious at that point. “He was still crying,” she said. “His eyes were open and he was having seizures. He was crying for me. I still can’t get his little cry out of my head.” According to Cantin, Sean stopped crying in the ambulance on the way to Royal Inland Hospital. “I feel like his soul left his body in that ambulance,” she said. “I have to think that because I can’t imagine the pain he went through. I re-live that moment again and again.” Cantin said her three-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, later offered her more information about what happened. “She said, ‘Sean climbed,’” Cantin said. “What I can imagine is he was climbing up the dresser and maybe it tipped and the TV fell on him. “It confuses me because I weighttested it.”
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