Teenager Electrocuted In Bath By Cellphone

Jul 15, 2019 by apost team

Smart devices offer so many easy and helpful opportunities for life in general, and they’ve been instrumental in everything from pinpointing a crime suspect’s whereabouts to automating homes to function at the touch of a button.

However, our obsession with them also has a negative side, as young Madison Coe found out—at the expense of her life.

14-years-old Madison Coe had her entire life ahead of her. This would’ve been her first year of high school in Lubbock, Texas, but she died before she could experience that chapter. Coe’s grandmother, Donna O’Guinn, described her to KCBD as a smart girl, a good student, and so vibrantly sweet that everyone just adored her. She was a talented young musician, who’d worked very hard to earn the number one seat in her middle school band's tuba section, and an athlete that played basketball.

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Today, Coe’s family has been left to make sense of her tragic death. She had been visiting her father in Lovington, New Mexico when she died. It was a Sunday morning, and Coe was taking a bath when somehow her plugged-in cellphone fell into the tub. She was fatally electrocuted. O’Guinn said that the electrocution left a burn mark on Coe’s hand.

Now O’Guinn and Coe’s survivors want to ensure something meaningful comes out of Coe’s accidental death and that such a tragedy isn’t faced by others. They’re doing everything they can to raise awareness that cellphones and water don’t mix and can have consequences much more serious than merely a broken phone.

Loved ones have also set up a memorial fund to help cover Coe’s funeral costs.

What a heartbreaking story. Do you or your family use smartphones in the tub? How do you plan to talk to your kids about the dangers of charging phones and water? Tell us your thoughts and please don’t forget to pass this important story on to others for awareness about the deadly dangers of phones and water.