{"id":3257,"date":"2014-07-03T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:43:34","slug":"woman-electrocuted-while-using-mobile-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3257","title":{"rendered":"Woman electrocuted while using mobile phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 27, 2014<\/span><\/strong> \u2014 <\/strong>A Filipina nurse was killed while talking on a phone that was plugged into a faulty charger.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Sheryl Aldeguer<\/strong>, 28, of North Gosford was found dead in her apartment on April 23. She came to Australia to work as a nurse. Authorities have established that she was electrocuted while speaking on a mobile phone which she had been charging. It is \u00a0believe that the charger was a “faulty knock-off” which released a sudden, high-voltage, electrical burst.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe voltage seems to have travelled up through the faulty charger into her phone. She was wearing earplugs and also operating a laptop which was also plugged into a power point,\u201d<\/em> said Fair Trading representative Lynelle Collins to the Sydney Morning Herald. “The electricity then went down through the earplugs into the laptop and into the power point,” Collins added.<\/p>\n

Aldeguer\u2019s body was found by her friends a day after the incident. She had sustained burns to her chest and ears. It is thought that she died instantly.<\/p>\n

Her friends believe that she procured the charger from a mobile accessories outlet in Sydney. Australian authorities have raided the shop and seized all of the non-standard chargers that were on sale. They have also issued a warning to Australian consumers to steer clear of the faulty products because of the serious risk of fire and electrocution.<\/p>\n

Fair Trading Commissioner Rod Stowe has urged all consumers to discard any non-standardized chargers and bend the prongs so they cannot be used again. \u201cIt’s a wake-up call to people who buy cheap electronic products without realizing potential hazards,\u201d said Stowe.<\/p>\n

“If the deal is too good to be true, it usually is and the product can prove fatal,” Stowe added.<\/p>\n

People should not use mobile phones while they are being charged because there is risk of being getting electric shocks.<\/p>\n

Genuine products usually contain a number of layers of protection, while cheap faulty ones have only the bare minimum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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