Boy, 6, dies after falling out of kitchen window

• Clivebenss

  5 Apr 11, 10:55

  Apr 5, 2011 - Straits Times

  Grilles were shut but unlocked, and there was no one else at home

  By Cheryl Ong & Yuen Sin

  
  

  A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy died after he fell from the kitchen window of a fifth-storey flat when no one was at home yesterday morning.

  Marson Heng, a kindergarten pupil, was believed to have used a laundry basket to climb up to the window. The grilles were shut but unlocked, as the family had put the laundry out to dry.

  His mother found his body at the foot of the Tampines block a few minutes later, when she was on her way home after running some errands.

  The police said they received a call about the fall at 8.55am. The boy was pronounced dead at 9.10am. When The Straits Times visited the three-room flat at Block 446, Tampines Street 42, on Monday afternoon, Marson's parents were sitting listlessly in the living room.

  His mother, who wanted to be known only as Mrs Heng, was hugging a picture of her son to her chest.

  The parents said it was the first time they had left their son unattended at home.

• Clivebenss

  5 Apr 11, 11:31

  so sad. RIP.

• likeyou

  5 Apr 11, 12:02

  Some of the household dont want to fit any window grills at all especially with the new hdb high rise flats.

   

  When children came to visit their neighbours I usually stand at the window in case my kids climb over.

   

   

• troublemaker2005

  5 Apr 11, 20:27

  when i was 6 years old i already snse danger when i look out of the unlocked window.

  so i keep out of trouble. now kids getting stupier. thank god this one fell at home instead of at the mrt tracks. if no many thousand s of commuters will be affected.

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  5 Apr 11, 22:11

  RIP

• Dawnfirstlight

  5 Apr 11, 22:27

  I know how the mother feels. I feel sad for her. The guilt is going to be with her forever. My friend's mother, who is now 80+ year old. She lost a son 60 years ago. Till now, she still blames herself for her son's death after 60 years. Sometimes she will weep quietly because she misses her son.

  Although she is a great grandmother with many daughters, sons and grandchildren, she told me she has never been happy because she lost a son 60 years ago. Sometimes she will ask my friend to leave her alone because she wants to stay at home and talks to her dead son. Besides this weird talk, she looks perfectly normal to me. Her pain of losing a son did not go away after 60 years. I think she will bring her guilt to her grave. I feel sad for her.

   

• likeyou

  6 Apr 11, 07:50

  I talked to many young couples why they dont want to fit the window grills, and their reason is the unit will look like a jail. Not nice, not beautiful.

  But why not think about their children safety? Nowadays, children very naughty and playful...unlike the past, very gong gong type.

  RIP...condolosence to the parent.

• smalldot

  6 Apr 11, 10:49

  it is very sad. RIP

• Clivebenss

  6 Apr 11, 13:16

  Apr 6, 2011 - Straits Times
  

  TRAGIC FALL

  Boy's death prompts child safety warnings

  Children aged under 10 should not be left at home alone, say experts

  By Melissa Pang, Fiona Low & Yuen Sin

  
  

  THE case of the six-year-old boy who fell to his death on Monday while he was left at home alone is a tragedy which has repeated itself.

  Since 1996, there have been at least eight other cases of children who sustained injuries or died when they were unsupervised or left alone at home.

• troublemaker2005

  6 Apr 11, 20:47

  Originally posted by likeyou:

  I talked to many young couples why they dont want to fit the window grills, and their reason is the unit will look like a jail. Not nice, not beautiful.

  But why not think about their children safety? Nowadays, children very naughty and playful...unlike the past, very gong gong type.

  RIP...condolosence to the parent.

  now adays most good life. so good life that they want better life somewhere outside the window. yep i agree last time chewren gong gong 1. probably they are our fathers and mothers. coz last time they all gong gong 1

• likeyou

  7 Apr 11, 00:29

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  Apr 6, 2011 - Straits Times
  

  TRAGIC FALL

  Boy's death prompts child safety warnings

  Children aged under 10 should not be left at home alone, say experts

  By Melissa Pang, Fiona Low & Yuen Sin

  
  

  THE case of the six-year-old boy who fell to his death on Monday while he was left at home alone is a tragedy which has repeated itself.

  Since 1996, there have been at least eight other cases of children who sustained injuries or died when they were unsupervised or left alone at home.

  I dont agreed that children age under 10 should not be left alone. Even more than 10 yr old also dangerous especially without window grills.

  Maybe hdb should make it compulsory for every household to have window grills.