14-year-old Texas girl electrocuted when cellphone drops in bathtub

Wednesday, July 12, 2017
LUBBOCK, Texas -- The family of a Texas girl said the 14-year-old was electrocuted when her charging cellphone fell into a bathtub full of water that she was in.

Madison Coe died Sunday morning at her father's home in Lovington, New Mexico, KCBD reports.
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According to the teen's mother and grandmother, she either plugged her cellphone in or simply grabbed her phone that was already plugged in to a bathroom outlet.

"There was a burn mark on her hand, the hand that would have grabbed the phone. And that was just very obvious that that's what had happened," said Donna O'Guinn, the girl's grandmother.
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Since her death, her family is turning to Facebook to inform people of the dangers involving electrical appliances that aren't waterproof.
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