India, April 3 -- A mother in the UK was stunned to discover that her toddler had eaten the ashes of her late father after they were kept in an urn in their living room, the Daily Mail reported. Natasha Emeny had left her toddler alone in the room to put away clothes, and when she returned, she was mortified to find her one-year-old son Koah covered in her late father's cremated ashes.

In a video filmed by the shocked mother, the child can be seen with ashes all over him as a hysterical Emeny kept repeating that he "ate her dad." The unaware toddler just walked around the room, smearing the ashes on his clothes and the furniture.

She claimed that the urn was out of her son's reach as it was placed on a top shelf, but the child was someh...