What a freak and tragic accident. MT thinks that the old-fashion, loop cords on blinds ought to be out-lawed in some new housing regulations, just like lead paint has to be maintained or eliminated, so should this common, but outdated, house danger.

The death of a 1-year-old Greenwich girl who became tangled in a window shade cord appears to be a tragic accident, police said yesterday.

Alerted by two 911 calls, police officers responded to a mid-country home at 3:26 p.m. Friday, according to a police press release.

It appeared as though the girl had been playing with the cord that looped around the bottom of the shade and became entangled in it, according to Sgt. Louis Pannone, one of the officers who responded to the call.

A 1-year-old baby girl was stuck by a tree and suffered fatal head injuries after a truck ran into a tree, causing it to fall on her.

LAKEWOOD, Ohio — A 1-and-a-half year old girl was killed after a tree fell on her and two other children in Lakewood on Saturday night.

Witnesses told officers that a pick-up truck had run into the tree on Madison Avenue near Alameda Avenue at about 7 p.m., causing it to fall, Lakewood police said.

They said the children were walking down the street when the tree fell on them.

Jaylah Tate died as a result of her injuries. She suffered multiple head trauma, police said.

This story just leaves me so discouraged and demoralized.

What is the point of Child Protective Services anyway? It seems that they’re more concerned with protecting and rewarding abusive parents than they are the children. Can’t we get an organization that actually cares about the well being of innocent babies and children? It’s bull.

The mom confessed to cops that she had hurt Pablo at least twice since he was born Feb. 8, the complaint said.

She told cops that on Feb. 22 she was changing the squirming baby’s diaper and “pressed down several times on his leg in an effort to make the baby stop moving,” prosecutors said.

She then “picked the baby up under his arms and threw the baby onto her bed,” breaking his leg and several of his ribs, prosecutors said.

She also emotionlessly described how she hurt the baby last Thursday when she “picked him up and hit him on the left side of his head with an open hand,” prosecutors said.

She dropped the car seat a short time later, sending the child crashing to the floor onto his head. He suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.

Caseworkers from the Administration for Children’s Services had visited Paez’s Corona home just two days before that final beating, but apparently saw no reason to remove the child.

Six months ago, ACS workers took a toddler from a pregnant Paez because of her drug use, but she had been clean since, authorities said.

“This is a sad and terrible tragedy that no child should ever have to experience,” ACS said in a statement. “We cannot comment in detail on our involvement with this family as we are still investigating.”