She Died in Her Crib. Her Parents Blame Their Apartment

Two-year-old Taqwa Dakhlalla was "all [her mother] ever wanted," a little girl who made the lives of her parents "ceaselessly better," according to Facebook posts. Then tragedy struck. On Dec. 11, 2016, Janna Walton and Abdullah Dakhlalla put their daughter to sleep in a room in their Portland, Ore., apartment with the temperature set at 62 degrees. 

Unbeknownst to the parents, the temperature would only rise as a heater continued to pump hot air into the room—where Taqwa was discovered the next morning, dead of overheating, according to lawsuit filed Monday in Multnomah County Circuit Court. It cites a notice from the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office stating the temperature near Taqwa's crib may have reached higher than 90 degrees, while tests showed air flowing from the heater ranged from 110 to 200 degrees, reports the Oregonian.

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