Single mother Marjorie Jean-Baptiste’s home was in flames, the first floor impassable. One by one, she threw six of her seven children out of a second story window, relying on a snowbank to break their falls. Her oldest child bravely jumped.
Tags: disaster, emergency planning, escape, fire, Marjorie Jean-Baptiste, single-mom, single-mother
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This article in the Washington Post brought tears to my eyes. A woman, acting as a single mother for a month while her partner awaits deportation to Camaroon, made a fatal error that cost the lives of her three children: she fell back to sleep.
Her four and two year olds, and her four month old, […]
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