A 7-month-old baby boy froze to death after being put to sleep outside a balcony in eastern Russia on Sunday morning.(Jan.5)
The child died from hypothermia after he was exposed to temperatures of -20C for five hours in the far-eastern Khabarovsk region after his parents put him outside to ‘sleep in the fresh air’.
Local media report the 40-year-old mother from Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, put her son out on the balcony, expecting to pick him up within a few minutes. But she reportedly forgot about her son and only remembered where he was five
When she went to pick him up and took him inside, she discovered her baby was no longer showing any ‘signs of life’ and was unable to be revived.