Police in China investigate death of two-year-old girl who fell out of 8th-floor window after being forgotten in lift by nanny

The theory is that the toddler accidentally fell out of a low-lying window on a floor she was taken to after being forgotten in a lift by her nanny

The father has filed a police report and the maid is being held on bond during the investigation

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Police are investigating what happened to a little girl after she was accidentally left inside a lift. Photo: SCMP composite

Published: 9:00am, 28 Jun 2022

A family in eastern China filed a police report after their two-year-old daughter mysteriously fell to her death from the eighth floor of a residential building. It happened after the toddler was taken to that floor because she was accidentally left behind in a lift by her nanny.

According to the June 14 surveillance footage from Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, the toddler, nicknamed Little Cherry, was left in the lift by her nanny, surnamed Wu. The woman was engrossed in her mobile phone before getting out of the lift and had only pushed the child’s scooter out of the opening doors.

Wu only briefly checked if the little girl was following her and did not realise the toddler had stayed in the lift until it was too late. When the girl let out a cry, Wu tried to use the scooter to stop the lift doors from closing, but she was too late, and the girl was taken to the eighth floor of the building.

There was no surveillance video once the girl got out of the lift. However, the eighth-floor window, only 45 centimetres above the floor, was found open, leading to a theory that the scared little girl accidentally fell out.

The nanny said she panicked when she realised the girl was left in the lift and frantically went up to the eighth floor, seeing that it had stopped there. However, Wu could not find the toddler, whose body was later discovered on the second-floor podium.

Surveillance video showed the nanny pulling the scooter out of the lift without realising the toddler had not followed her. Photo: Weibo

The father, surnamed Chen, laid the blame for the fatal accident at the feet of Wu, for her negligence.

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