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The offshore owners and the property manager of a North Vancouver home have been found liable for damages after an infant girl was horribly injured when she accidentally put a live electrical extension cord into her mouth.

On Aug. 24, 2007, then 10-month old Cora Rachelle Boyes was playing a game of peekaboo with her aunt beside the family couch and near the right-hand corner of a cabinet.

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She ducked behind the couch and did not reappear and when her aunt looked around the corner of the couch she found the little girl face down on the ground.

The girl, who had only been living in the rental home with her family for four months, had placed the end of the extension cord, which was under the cabinet, in her mouth.

She suffered severe burns to her face, mouth, lips, gums, palate, teeth and throat. Her aunt gave her first aid and an ambulance was called and the girl was placed in a medically induced coma.

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The girl, who is now nine years old, was kept in the intensive-care unit at Children’s Hospital for three weeks. She has had multiple surgeries since the incident.