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SAN FRANCISCO – A toddler has died after falling three stories from her bedroom window onto a concrete driveway. 

Lesly Gutierrez-Alvarado died early Tuesday, about 10 hours after the 18-month-old fell through three thin wooden slats that covered her window. 

Authorities said the girl had been bouncing on her bed, which was right next to the window, just before the accident occurred. 

Lesly’s mother, Patricia Alvarado, was in the room when the girl fell, police said. She reached out, but was unable to grab her daughter. 

Lesly was not breathing when firefighters found her shortly after 3 p.m. Monday in the driveway of the Mission District building. 

The toddler underwent surgery at San Francisco General to relieve pressure on her brain and to repair liver, spleen and kidney damage. 

“She wasn’t strong enough to be pulled out of it,” hospital spokeswoman Doreen Meyers said.