| Fourteen year old Madison Coe was electrocuted while using her cellphone in the bathtub. Police in Lovington, New Mexico have released the last picture she took before she died. |
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CBS News reported the tragic death of a teen doing what is not uncommon for people to do - use a cellphone while in the bathtub.The photograph that the police released shows a charger plugged into a frayed extension cord next to the bathtub. Police believe Madison sent that photo to a friend minutes before she died. She sent the photo with the message: "When you use and extension cord so you can plug your phone in while you're in the bath."
 While it was originally thought that the teenager had dropped her charging phone into the tub, police now say that the phone was not immersed in the water - they believe she died after touching the frayed extension cord she was using to charge the phone, and that she was most likely unaware of the damage.
Madison had just graduated from the eighth grade and was speding the summer in New Mexico with her father before starting her freshman year of high school in Texas. She was a basketball player, and played the tuba in her school band.
The post on Facebook continues to be shared, opening up many eyes to the power of electricity, and the danger of plugging in any electrical appliance near water. Her family wants to use this terrible tragedy to bring awareness to these dangers.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is reportedly investigating to find out of any products played a role in her death. |
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