Raise your hand if that’s how you’d want to celebrate your child’s birthday: cocaine, booze, and an overheating bathtub. No? Me neither. But in Brazil, military cop Jeferson Luiz Sagaz (37) and wife Ana Carolina Silva (41) apparently gave it a shot — and watched it end up tragically! Sad!
I’m not against massive birthday celebrations for kids, but don’t end up dying while making sure your daughter’s birthday becomes memorable.
Military cop Jeferson Luiz Sagaz, 37, and his nail salon owner partner, Ana Carolina Silva, 41, were found dead in a motel in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina on the night of Aug. 11, Brazilian outlet G1 Globo reported.
The couple had spent the day celebrating their young daughter’s birthday, drinking alcohol and doing cocaine, before going to a nightclub and checking into the Dallas Motel at around midnight.
When they failed to pick up their daughter the following day, relatives raised the alarm and reported the pair missing.
Their bodies were found in the motel bathtub.
Authorities ruled that heatstroke was the cause of death, but that the cocaine and alcohol in their blood may have dulled their reactions to the severe heat.
The water in the bathtub had reached 122 degrees Fahrenheit, while a space heater in the room was also turned up high, investigators found.
“The cause of both deaths was exogenous poisoning, favoring the process of heatstroke with intense dehydration, thermal collapse, culminating in organ failure and death,” Chief Medical Examiner Andressa Boer Fronza said Thursday.
Traces of cocaine and very high blood alcohol levels were revealed in toxicology tests.
“The use of cocaine, which in doses alone could cause torpor, drowsiness and even coma in the individual, combined with alcohol, which also causes this in high doses, such as torpor, coma and drowsiness,” Director of Forensic Medicine for the Scientific Police, Dr. Fernando Oliva da Fonseca, told G1 Globo.
“Add the two together, increasing the [risk] factor and that’s exactly what may have happened, the person goes into torpor at that temperature and it rises and they don’t feel it and don’t have a defense reaction,” the doctor said.
So here we are. A birthday celebration turned tragic! A daughter now orphaned. Such an unforgettable and heartbreaking situation for a 4-year-old girl.
