A three-year-old boy “drowned in his food” after his father force-fed him, a court has heard.
The little boys lungs were filled with a mixture of cereal and bread, jurors learned.
The Sun reports that the boy’s 32-year-old father, from north-west London, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is charged with manslaughter and cruelty to a child.
On November 27 last year, paramedics found the child in his nappy showing no signs of life after the defendant called for an ambulance.
The court was told: “It was very difficult to clear his airway because of the amount of porridge-like substance that was in his throat. When CPR was attempted, more of the substance came out.
“A post-mortem examination revealed that virtually all sections of his lungs were stuffed with recognisable food material.
“He had aspirated, inhaled, breathed in, a large amount of the porridge-like mix into his lungs so that he had, in effect, drowned in his food.”
It is alleged that the boy was force-fed while being laid across his father’s lap. “It is alleged that because of the way the youngster would have been laid across his father’s lap, he would not have been able to lean forward and cough up any food that went down the wrong way.”
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