WHITE RIVER – The mother of a two-year old girl who tragically passed away in hospital after being burnt with boiling water spoke to Lowvelder about the day of the accident.
Ms Monica Stoltz (22) told the paper on Friday what happened on May 14, when Angel Harnols (2) was rushed to hospital and then passed away on June 8. Police are probing the death of the child.
“I boiled water in a pot, preparing to bath Angel. I took it to the room and placed it on the floor next to the bed on which Angel was lying. I turned to close the windows because there was a wind coming in. Angel climbed off the bed in reverse, tripped and toppled the pot over herself.”
According to Stoltz, she rushed to her, picked her up and put her on her lap, in the process burning herself. “I called for my sister and she helped me to take off Angel’s clothes, we then poured cold water over her. My sister then phoned my aunt who rushed us to Themba Hospital.”
The family gave the paper a copy of the post-mortem report from the Department of Health and social services, dated June 10. It stated that Angel had died of “third- to fourth-degree burns on 40 per cent and the consequences thereof.”
The Stoltz family pointed out that that the report had another name which had been scratched out and Angel’s name had then been written in. Stoltz said the report stated her child was one metre and one centimetre tall. She also shows that on the first page, the report said her child was coloured and on the second page, black.
“It says here my child was foaming at the mouth, why? Also Angel never ate anything as she was on a drip and here it says she had food in her stomach.”
Stoltz allege that her baby died due to the hospital’s negligence. Read the previous report here.
“I need to find closure as I will never know what happened to my baby, “ she concluded.
