Boy, 2, and ten-month-old brother died after ehausted Mother left them in the shower and fell asleep for ten hours

A baby and a toddler were found dead after their mother put them both in the shower and fell asleep, an inquest heard today.

Miranda Hebble, who was 22 at the time of the tragedy, left her sons Lochlan and Malachi Stevens in the seam-filled bathroom at their house in Perth, Australia, for ten hours after she passed out.


When she woke up she discovered ten-month-old Malachi floating in the shower on his side with bruises on his cheek while Lochlan, 2, was lying on the floor with blood coming from his mouth.

He also had a scratch on his forehead and a mark on his stomach, the court was old.

Ms Hebble had been caring for the boys at home alone while their father, Christopher Stevens, was working on a fly-in-fly-out basis, the Australia Associated Press reported.

Lochlan had smeared faece from his nappy on floors, walls and the baby's cot, spurring her to put the boys in the shower to clean them up.

she left to fetch something, closing the bathroom door behind her, but fell asleep before she could return, the inquest was told.

When she returned to the bathroom, some ten hours later, both children were dead.

Ms Hebble told an emergency service operator: 'I passed out and the plug in the shower got plugged up ... and the shower filled up ... and they're not breathing. they're dead.'

Doctors pronounced both boys dead at 2 am the following morning.

A lesson for all mothers. so sad.