8-Year-Old Survives Nearly-Fatal Electrocution by Phone Charger in His Bed

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Lorenzo Lopez, 8, was sleeping in his bed when he woke up and found that his neck was being electrocuted

The boy was sleeping with a phone loosely plugged into a charger when his necklace became tangled in the charger and the extension cord it was connected to

A hospital employee reportedly told his mother, "Had he not pulled that chain off, he would have been electrocuted to death”

An 8-year-old boy is recovering after suffering a nearly fatal electrocution while sleeping in his bed.

Lorenzo Lopez was asleep with a phone on his bed that was loosely plugged into an extension cord connected to a nearby outlet. He then rolled over in his sleep, prompting his chain necklace to fall “between where the gap was on the extension cord and the charger, which is what shocked him,”