Dante Valentín Bermudes Rumi: One-year-old baby dies after ‘choking on mother’s fake fingernail’ in Argentina
Tragically, attempts to resuscitate the little boy were unsuccessful.
Warning: Distressing details
A one-year-old baby has died after choking on a fake fingernail that is believed to have belonged to his mother.
Dante Valentín Bermudes Rumi was at home in Los Polvorines, Argentina when he began struggling to breathe on March 21.
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“We were at home and I realised he wasn’t breathing. I ran outside to ask my neighbour for help so she could help him breathe, but she couldn’t,” she said.
“Then my aunt came upstairs and she couldn’t either. So I rushed to the hospital.”
Little Dante arrived at Grand Bourg Trauma Hospital within 10 minutes. Resuscitation attempts were made, but tragically the little boy died, Argentinian newspaper Clarin reported.
The autopsy found that Dante’s death was caused by asphyxiation due to a blocked airway.
An investigation into his death remains ongoing and Clarin reports that he choked on two objects that were stuck in his throat.
The little boy had no other injuries, and local police are working on reconstructing the scene to determine if it was a domestic accident. There are no suspects and no arrests have been made.
Aylin is understood to be a manicurist, and had to identify Dante’s body at the hospital.
As she left the room where she identified Dante, Aylin was allegedly assaulted by someone known to her in the hospital.
She taken away from the scene in a police car for her own safety, and an investigation into the assault has been launched by authorities.
This comes after a nine-year-old girl died after trying a TikTok challenge that involved choking.
It’s believed JackLynn Blackwell was participating in a so-called “blackout” or “choking” challenge, where people cut off their air supply to get a brief high, videos of which have been circulating on social media for years
The day JackLynn died was like any other, her parents said.
She was playing in her Texas backyard on February 3 when it suddenly became “quieter than it should’ve been” and her dad Curtis Blackwell checked on her.
“Then I saw her kind of around the corner that goes to the carport, saw her hair. I said, ‘JackLynn!’ I thought she was bending over playing cause she was always in that area playing, but she wasn’t playing,” told CBS News.
JackLynn had a cord around her neck and wasn’t breathing.
“I tried to do everything I could to save her. I got her off the cord. I tried to give her CPR until the first responders got there. It was the most terrifying, shocking thing I’ve ever seen. It was horrible to see my daughter in such a vulnerable state because of something so senseless.
“I’ll never forget that day. That’ll replay in my head for the rest of my life.”
