A careless and irresponsible mother has brought death to her child and calamity to herself after she unwittingly allowed rats to eat her child alive.
A horror event has left a mother heartbroken after rodents chewed off parts of her child’s face and fingers at a rundown house in Acolman near Mexico City. The mother, it is believed to have left the baby at home while she went out clubbing.
The 18-year-old mother identified as Lizbeth Jeronima Fuentes Munguia, alerted neighbours after returning home in the early hours of Tuesday morning and finding the little girl lying lifeless in her cot.
The baby was pronounced dead at the scene after paramedics rushed to the property to try to save her. Police have arrested the woman.
According to local reports, the baby’s unnamed grandmother, who had been left in charge of the youngster, had also been held.
