After her three-year-old died in a furniture tip-over accident, mom makes desperate plea to parents.
Kimberly Amato
"I knew in my heart she was gone," Amato said."I wasn't ready to accept it, I'm still not ... but you always hold onto that hope." The night she lost Meghan, Amato sat down and wrote an email to her loved ones, informing them of her child's sudden death and urging them to bolt their dressers to the wall.
, the CPSC revealed that between 2000 and 2018, there were 556 fatalities that were caused by tip-overs. Of those reported deaths, 83% involved kids with the victims ages being 1 month to 14 years. Fourteen percent involved seniors, victims ages 60 years or older. Emily Samuel, program director at the nonprofit child safety organization Safe Kids Wordwide, told"GMA" that furniture tip-overs are especially relevant now amid the pandemic and stay-at-home orders.
Meghan Beck, 3, died in 2004 as a result of a furniture tip-over accident. Now, her mother Kimberly Amato is raising awareness to parents about the danger lurking in their own homes. Amato urges families to anchor their furniture to the walls and is part of the government-funded campaign, Anchor It! Mom Kimberly Amato of Sterling, Massachusetts, is seen in an undated photo with her daughter Meghan Beck, 3. Meghan died in 2004 as a result of a furniture tip-over accident.
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