{"id":235578,"date":"2023-11-27T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mystylenews.com\/?p=235578"},"modified":"2023-11-27T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:14:09","slug":"i-sent-my-girl-7-to-her-room-she-died-in-20-seconds-from-suffocating-on-a-birthday-balloon-i-cant-forgive-myself-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mystylenews.com\/fashion\/i-sent-my-girl-7-to-her-room-she-died-in-20-seconds-from-suffocating-on-a-birthday-balloon-i-cant-forgive-myself-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I sent my girl, 7, to her room & she died in 20 seconds from suffocating on a birthday balloon – I can't forgive myself | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
A MUM has spoken out to warn other parents of the dangers of helium balloons after her seven year old daughter was killed by her own birthday balloon.<\/p>\n
Tiffany McIntyre, from Texas, was devastated when she walked into her daughter Zahmira\u2019s bedroom and found her lifeless with the giant helium balloon over her head.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s thought that Zahmira burst the balloon whilst playing with it, and put it over her head where she was quickly overcome by the helium gas and suffocated.<\/p>\n
Tiffany, 32, a single mum, and Zahmira\u2019s younger sister Charleigh, six, have been left devastated by their loss.<\/p>\n
Speaking exclusively to Fabulous, Tiffany says: \u201cCharleigh asks about her sister every day and says how much she misses her. It\u2019s heartbreaking.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd every time she sees a balloon she tells everyone that it hurt her sister. She and Zahmira did everything together, they were inseparable.\u201d<\/p>\n
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It was in September 2020 during Covid that Zahmira was having school lessons online, and after one lesson where she hadn\u2019t been concentrating properly, Tiffany sent her daughter into her bedroom to lie on her bunk bed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told her she needed to listen to her teacher,\u201d Tiffany says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cZahmira had ADHD and she kept getting out of her seat and not paying attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo when the lesson finished I told her to go have a lie down whilst I cleaned the house.<\/p>\n
\u201cI put on a movie for Charleigh to watch in the lounge, and I was cleaning my bedroom twenty minutes later when I realised I hadn\u2019t heard Zahmira call out to me, which was unusual, so I went in the bedroom to check on her.\u201d<\/p>\n