A Mom of three is warning other parents after she claims that her young daughter was sucked into a spinning tumble dryer.
The girl, Iiylah-Louise Johnstone-Evans, who is almost two years old, was playing when she opened the dryer’s door and got her finger caught on a blanket as it spun round and round, her mother Shannon Johnstone-Evans wrote on Facebook.
Shannon heard her daughter’s screams and turned the dryer off as the girl’s head was pulled in the spinning apparatus at their Somercotes, U.K., home on October 18.
“I was in the kitchen cooking the kids dinner to hear iiylah screaming (sic),” she wrote, adding that “it was quite muffled.”
Image credit: Shannon Marie Johnston Facebook
The toddler was taken to hospital due to the accident.
She received treatment for tissue damage to her fingers on her right hand at King’s Mill Hospital in Nottinghamshire, the SWNS news agency reported.“I managed to get her out and unwrap the blankets,” she wrote on Facebook, adding that the “cotton was wrapped [around] her finger” and was “cutting the circulation.”
Image credit: Shannon Marie Johnston Facebook
The girl’s fingers “twice there [sic] normal size,” Johnstone-Evans wrote.Johnstone-Evans, who is the mother of three other children, said she attempted to contact the manufacturer of the Crusader CT31V tumble dryer.
The company reportedly doesn’t exist anymore.
“The dryer is a few years old but it had always stopped spinning when you opened the door,” she was quoted as saying.“I’ve thrown the dryer out now and I’ll never have one again. Thank god she was able to cry out and warn me about what was happening,” the terrified Mother explained. “It’s been horrible. It’s the most horrific thing that I have ever seen in my life.”
Johnstone-Evans said that when the girl’s finger was being pulled it, “it felt like everything was just taking ages.”
The experience has proven to be traumatic for the girl, who is just 23 months old.
“The next day, we put her to bed as normal, but at around 7 p.m. she started screaming again,” Johnstone-Evans said. “She was shaking all over and started vomiting repeatedly. The doctors reckon it must be some sort of seizure, perhaps brought on by shock. Thankfully she is all ok now and on the mend.”
At the end of her Facebook post, the Mom offered a warning to others, saying: “I want to mainly warn parents how dangerous tumble dryers are.”