A 'LOVING' boy drowned within the tub whereas his mum wrapped presents in one other room the day earlier than his brother's birthday, an inquest heard.
Jayden-Jay Silvester, 5, is assumed to have suffered a seizure within the water earlier than he was found unresponsive at his dwelling in Waterside Drive, Blurton, on New Yr's Eve.
Regardless of his mum Lisa Johnson's determined efforts to resuscitate him, in addition to the work of paramedics and NHS employees, the little boy died on the Royal Stoke College Hospital later that day.
The tragedy got here simply 34 days after his dad Jason Silvester handed away on November 27 with Jayden-Jay usually asking the place he was and saying that he wished to see him.
In a press release, Jayden-Jay's grief-stricken mum Lisa defined she had taken her son and his youthful brother Oscar out looking for balloons on December 31 forward of Oscar's birthday on New Yr's Day.
They had been planning on going to the park within the afternoon.
The mum was not blamed for the demise, as police dominated that the five-year-old had the power to get out of the bathtub if he wished to.
Lisa mentioned: "Jayden-Jay bought on the couch and did not need to go to the park as a result of he felt unwell.
"His cheeks had been purple uncooked and so scorching. Twenty minutes later my mum-in-law and sister-in-law got here.
"I requested them to take care of the kids whereas I wrapped presents.
"Jayden-Jay got here upstairs and requested if he might have a shower and he grabbed his head in ache.
"I went to the toilet, turned on each faucets and put any person wash into it. The tub was half full. I put him within the tub myself.
"I made certain he was OK. At this level, he was sat within the tub and I requested my sister-in-law to get some Calpol and put it in Coke as Jayden-Jay would not have it in any other case.
"He solely took a sip and I used to be shocked as a result of he isn't often allowed Coke and I believed he would drink extra.
"I went into the bed room and continued wrapping presents.
"Between 5 and 10 minutes later I shouted Jayden-Jay to ask if he was OK and he mentioned he was.
"I solely had one current left to wrap however I might run out of paper. His grandmother got here as much as convey the wrapping paper and I requested her to test on Jayden-Jay.
"I heard her scream and I bumped into the toilet, she pulled him from the bathtub and I began CPR and chest compressions."
After calling 999, an operator talked Lisa via CPR till paramedics arrived and Jayden-Jay was taken to hospital the place he was confirmed lifeless at 5.20pm.
BATHTIME TRAGEDY
The inquest heard Newstead Main Academy pupil Jayden-Jay had been born at simply 24-weeks-old and spent 101 days on a neonatal unit. He remained on oxygen for 18 months and had a historical past of seizures.
In her assertion, Lisa praised his faculty.
She mentioned: "The lecturers had been extraordinarily supportive, that they had relationship and supplied him one to 1 assist.
"He was actually approaching together with his work they usually allowed him to work in his personal method and actually inspired him.
"He at all times did his finest and went past expectations."
A autopsy was carried out on Jayden-Jay which supplied a medical reason behind demise as drowning secondary to seizure.
A police report learn out on the inquest said that there was no water across the tub suggesting there hadn't been a battle.
It added that Jayden-Jay had the power to get out of the bathtub if he wished to.
Concluding the demise was resulting from pure causes, space coroner for Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire Emma Serrano, mentioned: "On the steadiness of possibilities he had a seizure while within the tub and that triggered him to go below the water and move away.
"He had a historical past of seizures when he was youthful and had a temperature.
"Sadly as a result of he had a seizure while within the tub, he went within the water and he drowned."
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