For Tetyana and her baby boy, bath time is a daily routine that has been going on unchanged and unperturbed for the past 11 months.
Things were altered one day, however, after the mom did as usual in filling a bucket with boiling hot water and hauling it into the bedroom.
She placed it next to the table and began to initialize the process of mixing cool water in so her baby could take his bath.
It was when she turned around the collect cold water, however, that tragedy struck.
“I saw how he fell in the boiling water. I rushed to the bucket and pulled him out,” Tetyana told local reporters, as per The Sun.
“I hugged him, then wrapped in a cotton cloth. When I unwrapped him I saw his skin was peeling off.”
Rushed to hospital
Daniil was rushed immediately to hospital in Odesa in critical condition. It transpired that at least 80 percent of his little body was covered in serious burns, with only his fingers, toes, and forehead spared.
Doctors at the hospital confirmed they were doing everything possible to save Daniil’s life, but did not want to discuss his chances of survival.
Nurses, meanwhile, added that the boy’s voice has grown hoarse from continuous crying.
Vadim Shukhtin, head of Odessa Region Clinical Hospital, said: “His condition is very serious. The boy receives all possible treatment and medication.”
Tragic update
In an updated article on March 28, 2019, The Sun reports that Daniil Chernenko succumbed to his injuries just two days after turning one.
Police are treating the incident as an accident, though mom Tetyana naturally remains distraught with herself.
Nurses said the boy, from Salhany in southern Ukraine, went through unbearable pain.
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