Family, friends and strangers have donated almost $80,000 to the parents of a toddler who died after becoming stuck in a playset at her babysitter’s house.
Boynton Beach police say 3-year-old Briella Holmes stuck her head through a toy sink on July 23 while trying to retrieve fallen toys from a wooden kitchen playset. Her babysitter had left the two-story house earlier and appointed her spouse, upstairs, to watch over the children, downstairs.
Investigators say he did so intermittently, appearing every so often with snacks for the kids. During the last of those trips, he found Briella stuck and unresponsive. Police haven’t said how long she’d been stuck but say the spouse pulled her out and began life-saving efforts immediately…